CVE-2013-4185
OpenStack Nova Denial of Service in network source security groups
EPSS 0.58%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2013-4185
To remediate CVE-2013-4185, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/nova—upgrade to 2013.1.2-3 or later
- —upgrade to 12.0.0a0 or later
Is CVE-2013-4185 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2013.1.2-3
- from 0, < 12.0.0a0