Unscored severity · published Mar 6, 2014
CVE-2013-6437
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…
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CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NO
Nova · Openstack
2013.1 before 2013.1.5; 2013.2 before 2013.2.2; 2014.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6437
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6437
Patch
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
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