Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-4469

Title: Openstack Grizzly Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-4469.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Nov 02, 2013
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 1.9 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.44%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-4469: OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when use_cow_images is set to False, does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data from Glance. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Impacted Vendors

O
openstack 3
E
eclipse 1

Reference Links

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://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
1.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-4469 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:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.