CVE-2013-6437

MediumCVSS 4.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980Third Party Advisory
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 6, 2014
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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