CVE-2014-2573

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

25/03/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.30 LOW
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical