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nova — security advisory
The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the image.
- Products
- nova
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2014.1-9
- CVEs
- CVE-2014-2573
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the image.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2573
nova
Fixed versions: 2014.1-9
nova
Fixed versions: 2014.1-9
nova
Fixed versions: 2014.1-9
Complete source record
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