CVE-2014-3608
OpenStack Compute (Nova)'s VMWare driver vulnerable to denial of service
EPSS 0.69%
Description
The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue state, suspending it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573.
How to fix CVE-2014-3608
To remediate CVE-2014-3608, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/nova—upgrade to 2014.1.3-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2014.1.3 or later
Is CVE-2014-3608 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2014.1.3-1
- from 0, < 2014.1.3