Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-1838

Title: Openstack Essex Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-1838.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Mar 22, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.74%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-1838: 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.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 3

eclipse 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/91303 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0709.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52580 http://secunia.com/advisories/52728 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1771-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/18 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58492 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125468 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919648 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82877 https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg21892.html https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24451/ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24452/ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24453/ http://osvdb.org/91303 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0709.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52580 http://secunia.com/advisories/52728 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1771-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/18 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58492 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125468 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919648 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82877 https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg21892.html https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24451/ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24452/ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24453/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-1838 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.

March 22, 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:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.