CVE-2013-4278
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Resource limit circumvention in Nova private flavors
EPSS 0.20%
Description
The "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256.
How to fix CVE-2013-4278
To remediate CVE-2013-4278, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/nova—upgrade to 2013.1.3-1 or later
- PyPI/nova—upgrade to 12.0.0a0 or later
Is CVE-2013-4278 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2013.1.3-1
- from 0, < 12.0.0a0