PYSEC-2026-879

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OpenStack Nova Denial of Service in network source security groups

view advisory published 2026-07-06Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-3 does not properly handle network source security group policy updates, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (nova-network consumption) via a large number of server-creation operations, which triggers a large number of update requests.

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CVE-2013-4185USmedium4.0—
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-3 does not properly handle network source security group policy updates, w…
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