GitHub Advisory DatabaseGHSA-HRV9-4X4C-9JC8OpenStack Nova DoS through ephemeral disk backing files
4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
59.1%
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.
Affected configurations
References
lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
github.com/advisories/GHSA-hrv9-4x4c-9jc8
github.com/openstack/nova/commit/3e451f1bac57d24e47171cffb3ad59bb1610d836
github.com/openstack/nova/commit/6e455cd97f04bf26bbe022be17c57e089cf502f4
github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ca38774ebcf5b67d16c202c8f218c0c433973ca9
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6437
Related
4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
59.1%