PyPi: Nova

CVE-2014-3608

Safety vulnerability ID: 35563

This vulnerability was reviewed by experts

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Created at Oct 06, 2014 Updated at Dec 17, 2024
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Advisory

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue state, suspending it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573.

Affected package

nova

Latest version: 30.0.0

Cloud computing fabric controller

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue state, suspending it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573.


MLIST:[oss-security] 20141002 [OSSA 2014-032] Nova VMware driver still leaks rescued images (CVE-2014-3608): http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/65
CONFIRM:https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830
REDHAT:RHSA-2014:1781: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html
REDHAT:RHSA-2014:1782: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html
BID:70220: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70220

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

LOW 2.7

CVSS v2 Details

LOW 2.7
Access Vector (AV)
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
NONE
Availability Impact (A)
PARTIAL