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CVE-2014-3608 json

OpenStack Compute (Nova)'s VMWare driver vulnerable to denial of service

published 2014-10-06 12 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-92hc-c226-32q7 , PYSEC-2026-869 , EUVD-2022-3271

cvss
2.7
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi nova 2014.1.3
  • openstack nova 2014.1.3
  • nova Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2014.1.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3608

  • nova Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:2014.1.3-0ubuntu1.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3608

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • openstack-nova openstack 5 2014.1.3-4.el7ost
  • python-nova openstack 5 2014.1.3-4.el7ost
  • openstack-nova-api openstack 5 2014.1.3-4.el7ost
  • openstack-nova-cert openstack 5 2014.1.3-4.el7ost
  • openstack-nova-cells openstack 5 2014.1.3-4.el7ost
  • openstack-nova-common openstack 5 2014.1.3-4.el7ost
  • openstack-nova-compute openstack 5 2014.1.3-4.el7ost
  • openstack-nova-console openstack 5 2014.1.3-4.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:1782RHSA-2014:1781

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-2014-3608 updated cvss 4.0

openstack-nova: incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573, Nova VMware driver still leaks rescued images

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 openstack-nova
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 python-nova 2014.1.3-4.el6ost, openstack-nova 2014.1.3-4.el6ost, openstack-nova-api 2014.1.3-4.el6ost, openstack-nova-cert 2014.1.3-4.el6ost, openstack-nova-cells 2014.1.3-4.el6ost, openstack-nova-common 2014.1.3-4.el6ost, +7 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1781
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 python-nova 2014.1.3-4.el7ost, openstack-nova 2014.1.3-4.el7ost, openstack-nova-api 2014.1.3-4.el7ost, openstack-nova-cert 2014.1.3-4.el7ost, openstack-nova-cells 2014.1.3-4.el7ost, openstack-nova-common 2014.1.3-4.el7ost, +7 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1782

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Exploit prediction

1.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.7 AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi nova
<2014.1.3
2014.1.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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