CVE-2013-4278

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-08-20
Bugzilla:
1000086: CVE-2013-4278 OpenStack: Nova private flavors resource limit circumvention incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256.

Find out more about CVE-2013-4278 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. Red Hat did not release the incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256 in any products.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

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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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 openstack-nova Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 openstack-nova Will not fix

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