CVE-2013-4185

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-10-29

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-310

Affected products

• Compute (Openstack)
• Openstack (Redhat)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/282
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1184041