🛡️ CVE-2013-4185 — nova

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenStack Nova Denial of Service in network source security groups

Algorithmic 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.

Affected software

CVE-2013-4185 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nova (fixed in 12.0.0a0)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
bugs.launchpad.net (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
seclists.org (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nova 12.0.0a0

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