CVE-2014-2573 (GCVE-0-2014-2573)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-25 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:21
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2310 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/21/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/57498 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1269418 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/21/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2014-03-21 00:00
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