🛡️ CVE-2014-2573 — nova

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-770 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenStack Nova VMWare driver leaks rescued images

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-2573 is classified as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Resources are allocated on request with no cap, so a client can exhaust them.

Affected software

CVE-2014-2573 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nova (fixed in 12.0.0a0)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 26 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
bugs.launchpad.net (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-770
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-11-26
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nova — 12.0.0a0

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