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CVE-2013-6426 json

The cloudformation-compatible API in OpenStack Orchestration API (Heat) before Havana 2013.2.1 and Icehouse before icehouse-2 does not prop…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-6238

cvss
4.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The cloudformation-compatible API in OpenStack Orchestration API (Heat) before Havana 2013.2.1 and Icehouse before icehouse-2 does not properly enforce policy rules, which allows local in-instance users to bypass intended access restrictions and (1) create a stack via the CreateStack method or (2) update a stack via the UpdateStack method.

Patch / fix

  • heat Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2013.2.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6426

  • openstack-heat openstack 4 2013.2.1-4.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-api openstack 4 2013.2.1-4.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-common openstack 4 2013.2.1-4.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-engine openstack 4 2013.2.1-4.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cfn openstack 4 2013.2.1-4.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch openstack 4 2013.2.1-4.el6ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0090

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-6426 updated cvss 4.0

Heat: CFN policy rules not all enforced

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 openstack-heat
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 openstack-heat 2013.2.1-4.el6ost, openstack-heat-api 2013.2.1-4.el6ost, openstack-heat-common 2013.2.1-4.el6ost, openstack-heat-engine 2013.2.1-4.el6ost, openstack-heat-api-cfn 2013.2.1-4.el6ost, openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch 2013.2.1-4.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0090

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

1.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1256049 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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