CVE-2014-3608
lowpriority · track · 12EPSS 0.017 · 77 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (4)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-92hc-c226-32q7OpenStack Compute (Nova)'s VMWare driver vulnerable to denial of service2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
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.
- PYSEC-2026-869OpenStack Compute (Nova)'s VMWare driver vulnerable to denial of service2026-07-06vendor · osvUS
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.
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references (20)
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.htmlcnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.htmlcnnvd
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/65cnnvd
- http://www.openstack.org/Patchcnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1781cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1782cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3608cnnvd
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830cnnvd
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