CVE-2013-4185

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-4185
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-10-29 22:55:00 UTC
Updated2018-11-15 18:34:00 UTC
DescriptionAlgorithmic complexity vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-3 does not properly handle network source security group policy updates, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (nova-network consumption) via a large number of server-creation operations, which triggers a large number of update requests.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-310

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Compute All All All All
Application Openstack Compute All All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 3.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack 3.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-sec: [OSSA 2013-020] Denial of Service in Nova network source security groups (CVE-2013-4185) MLIST seclists.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Bug #1184041 “[OSSA 2013-020] Denial of Service in Nova network ...” : Bugs : OpenStack Compute (nova) CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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