Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-2256

Title: Openstack Nova Information Disclosure

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-2256.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Sep 16, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-2256: 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.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

panic 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/281 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1194093 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/281 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1194093

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-2256 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.

September 16, 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:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.