CVE-2013-2256
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-2 does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information (flavor properties), boot arbitrary flavors, and possibly have other unspecified impacts by guessing the flavor id.
Find out more about CVE-2013-2256 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 5.5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 (openstack-nova) | RHSA-2013:1199 | 2013-09-03 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | openstack-nova | Will not fix |
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges hzrandd from NetEase as the original reporter. Upstream also acknowledges Ken'ichi Ohmichi from NEC for providing a corrected fix for this issue.CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation