CVE-2013-4278

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-4278
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-09-16 19:14:39 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Compute - All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Bug #1212179 “[OSSA 2013-024] nova should check the is_public of...” : Bugs : OpenStack Security Advisory af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.launchpad.net
OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software » Message: [openstack-announce] [OSSA 2013-024] Resource limit circumvention in Nova private flavors (CVE-2013-4278) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.openstack.org Patch
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