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CVE-2016-7498 json

OpenStack Compute (nova) 13.0.0 does not properly delete instances from compute nodes, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a d…

published 2016-09-27 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8351

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenStack Compute (nova) 13.0.0 does not properly delete instances from compute nodes, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting instances while in the resize state. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2015-3280 regression.

Patch / fix

  • nova Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:13.1.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7498

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-2016-7498 updated cvss 4.3

openstack-nova: May fail to delete images in resize state regression

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) python-nova, openstack-nova, python-nova-tests, openstack-nova-api, openstack-nova-cert, openstack-nova-cells, +10 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) python-nova, openstack-nova, python-nova-tests, openstack-nova-api, openstack-nova-cert, openstack-nova-cells, +11 more
    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

2.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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