CVE-2013-1838

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.0
Exploit probability86. percentile2.7%
ProductOpenstack Essex
PublishedMar 22, 2013
First seenMar 22, 2013

How to fix

Update
  • nova12.0.0a0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
openstack essex2012.1—
openstack folsom2012.2—
openstack grizzly2012.2—
canonical ubuntu_linux11.10, 12.04, 12.10—
novaPyPIv < 12.0.0a012.0.0a0

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