CVE-2013-2256

Advisory

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-2 does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information (flavor properties), boot arbitrary flavors, and possibly have other unspecified impacts by guessing the flavor id.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-2 does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information (flavor properties), boot arbitrary flavors, and possibly have other unspecified impacts by guessing the flavor id.


MLIST:[oss-security] 20130806 [OSSA 2013-019] Resource limit circumvention in Nova private flavors (CVE-2013-2256): http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/281
CONFIRM:https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1194093: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1194093
REDHAT:RHSA-2013:1199: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2256
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1194093
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/281
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html