CVE-2013-1838

Nova: DoS by allocating all Fixed IPs

Published Mar 22, 2013 CVSS 2.0 · 4.0 Medium EPSS 2.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-0023 OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-63fq-8fp9-vhwq OpenStack Compute (Nova) Denial of service via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1771-1 OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 3:13 PM
Reserved
Feb 19, 2013, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 22, 2013, 9:55 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:52 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Mar 14, 2013, 12:00 AM