Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-4463

Title: Openstack Grizzly Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-4463.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Feb 06, 2014

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.37%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-4463: OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 3

eclipse 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0112.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0112.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/31/3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-4463 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 06, 2014 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.