CVE-2016-7498 (GCVE-0-2016-7498)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-27 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:57
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Summary
OpenStack Compute (nova) 13.0.0 does not properly delete instances from compute nodes, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting instances while in the resize state. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2015-3280 regression.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-09-21 00:00
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