Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-4185

Title: Redhat Openstack Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-4185.

CWE Category CWE-310
Published Date Oct 29, 2013
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-4185: Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-3 does not properly handle network source security group policy updates, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (nova-network consumption) via a large number of server-creation operations, which triggers a large number of update requests.

Impacted Vendors

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openstack 2
R
redhat 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/282 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1184041 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/282 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1184041
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-2013-4185 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.