CVE-2013-4278

Published: Sep 16, 2013Modified: Apr 29, 2026

3.5

Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Exploitability: 6.8 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

The "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256.

Affected (1)

Products: Openstack: Compute

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Openstack Compute	All versions

Related CWEs

References (6)

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-August/000138.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1212179

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-August/000138.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Patch

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1212179

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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