CVE-2013-2096
EPSS 0.06%OpenStack Compute (Nova) does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/novafrom 0, < 2013.1.2-2
- PyPI/novafrom 0, < 12.0.0a0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2096
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2096
- PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/nova
- WEBhttp://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-May/000102.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/0caeb8eaf20abcdc77828f5c6b79fc104619e231
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/44a8aba1d5da87d54db48079103fdef946666d80
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/28717
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/28901
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/29192
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20130726040108/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59924
- WEBhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1831-1