CVE-2013-4278

EPSS 0.20%

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Resource limit circumvention in Nova private flavors

Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

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.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/novafrom 0, < 2013.1.3-1
PyPI/novafrom 0, < 12.0.0a0

References (9)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4278
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4278
PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/nova
WEBhttp://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-August/000138.html
WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1212179
WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/4054cc4a22a1fea997dec76afb5646fd6c6ea6b9
WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/6825959560e06725d26625fd21f5c0b78b305492
WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8b686195afe7e6dfb46c56c1ef2fe9c993d8e495