CVE-2014-2573

Severity

23%

Complexity

44%

Confidentiality

48%

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the image.

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the image.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.3. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-03-25 16:55:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-03-26 13:41:00

Affected Software

OpenStack Compute 2013.2

2013.2

OpenStack Compute 2013.2.1

2013.2.1

OpenStack Compute 2013.2.2

2013.2.2

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