Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-6437

Title: Openstack Nova Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-6437.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Mar 06, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.02%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-6437: The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.

Impacted Vendors

O
openstack 1
P
panic 1

Reference Links

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980 http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
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-2013-6437 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 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.