CVE-2013-4278

Summary

CVECVE-2013-4278
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-09-16 19:14:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:16:00 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

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Compute - All All All
Application Openstack Compute - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Bug #1212179 “[OSSA 2013-024] nova should check the is_public of...” : Bugs : OpenStack Security Advisory CONFIRM 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) MLIST lists.openstack.org Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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