CVE-2013-1838
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.
Find out more about CVE-2013-1838 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| OpenStack Folsom (openstack-nova) | RHSA-2013:0709 | 2013-04-04 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| RHOS Essex Release | openstack-nova | Will not fix |
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Vish Ishaya (Nebula) as the original reporter.CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation