Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-3608

Title: Openstack Nova Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-3608.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Oct 06, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.7 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.71%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-3608: The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue state, suspending it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573.

Impacted Vendors

P
panic 1
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openstack 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/65 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70220 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/65 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70220 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.7
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-3608 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:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.