PYSEC-2014-113

vendorUSosv

view advisory published 2014-03-25Licence: CC-BY-4.0

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the image.

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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2014-2573US	low2.3	0.70% (53rd)	—	2014-03-25
The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limi…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

http://secunia.com/advisories/57498ADVISORY
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/21/1WEB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/21/2WEB
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1269418WEB

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