CVE-2014-8333

EPSS 0.74%

OpenStack Nova VMware instance leak potentially leading to compute DoS

Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

The VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an instance in the resize state.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/novafrom 0, < 2014.1.3-7
PyPI/novafrom 0, < 12.0.0a0

References (10)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8333
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8333
PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/nova
WEBhttp://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000298.html
WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html
WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html
WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1359138
WEBhttp://secunia.com/advisories/60531
WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d71445c7d2d2921d10a08f82330f0ab8ef4f7df2
WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/e1f8664c9fa83f77f5bb763ffcc3157905ed954c