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CVE-2013-6437

Date: March 6, 2014

The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.

Language: Python

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/6e455cd97f04bf26bbe022be17c57e089cf502f4
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ca38774ebcf5b67d16c202c8f218c0c433973ca9
https://github.com/openstack/nova
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/3e451f1bac57d24e47171cffb3ad59bb1610d836
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6437
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-6437

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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