CVE-2013-6437
openstack nova: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in nova 12.0.0a0.
The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.
- EPSS
- 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- openstack:nova
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-hrv9-4x4c-9jc8 | PyPI | nova | <12.0.0a0 | 12.0.0a0 |
| PYSEC-2026-874 | PyPI | nova | <12.0.0a0 | 12.0.0a0 |
References
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1253980
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-December/000179.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html