Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-2573

Title: Openstack Compute Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-2573.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Mar 25, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.71%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-2573: The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the image.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/57498 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/21/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/21/2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1269418 http://secunia.com/advisories/57498 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/21/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/21/2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1269418

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-2573 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 25, 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:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.