CVE-2013-2096

medium

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data.

References

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/29192/

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/28901/

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/28717/

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1831-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59924

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-May/000102.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-07-09

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium