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CVE-2013-4469 json

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Denial of service due to improper validation of virtual size of QCOW2 image

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx , PYSEC-2026-860 , EUVD-2022-2062

cvss
1.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when use_cow_images is set to False, 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 transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data from Glance. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Patch / fix

  • pypi nova 12.0.0a0
  • nova Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2013.2-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4469

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4469 updated cvss 4.0

Nova: Incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 openstack-nova
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 openstack-nova
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi nova
<12.0.0a0
12.0.0a0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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