Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-0208

Title: Openstack Essex

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-0208.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Feb 13, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-0208: The boot-from-volume feature in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom and Essex, when using nova-volumes, allows remote authenticated users to boot from other users' volumes via a volume id in the block_device_mapping parameter.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 2

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/89661 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51963 http://secunia.com/advisories/51992 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57613 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1709-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1069904 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902629 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81697 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/243d516cea9d3caa5a8267b12d2f577dcb24193b https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/317cc0af385536dee43ef2addad50a91357fc1ad http://osvdb.org/89661 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51963 http://secunia.com/advisories/51992 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57613 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1709-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1069904 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902629 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81697 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/243d516cea9d3caa5a8267b12d2f577dcb24193b https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/317cc0af385536dee43ef2addad50a91357fc1ad

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-0208 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 13, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.