CVE-2013-6437

Published: Mar 6, 2014Modified: May 6, 2026

4.0

Vector

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

Exploitability: 8.0 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

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 (3)

Products: Openstack: Nova

1 product

Configuration A

3 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Openstack Nova	From 2013.1 to 2013.1.5
Openstack Nova	From 2013.2 to 2013.2.2
Openstack Nova	Version 2014.1 milestone1

Related CWEs

References (6)

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

PatchVendor Advisory

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Third Party Advisory

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html

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

PatchVendor Advisory

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html

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

Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980

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

Third Party Advisory

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