CVE-2013-1838
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4 · CWE-399
4CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52580Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52728Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/91303
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0709.html
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1771-1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/18
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58492
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125468