3.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2013-4278

Published: 16/09/2013 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 6.8
VMScore: 312
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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Nova could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network requests ...
Debian Bug report logs - #720602 nova: CVE-2013-4278: Incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256 Package: nova; Maintainer for nova is Debian OpenStack <team+openstack@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:45:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security, upstream ...
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 ...