Critical
Security advisory
Apache CloudStack 4.1 to 4.8.1.0 and 4.9.0.0 contain an API call designed to allow a user to register for the developer API. If a malicious user is able to determine the ID of another (non-"root") CloudStack user, the malicious user may be able to reset the API keys for the other user, in turn accessing their account and resources.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-6813
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Apache CloudStack 4.1 to 4.8.1.0 and 4.9.0.0 contain an API call designed to allow a user to register for the developer API. If a malicious user is able to determine the ID of another (non-"root") CloudStack user, the malicious user may be able to reset the API keys for the other user, in turn accessing their account and resources.
osv:CVE-2016-6813
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:07.040524846Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-02-06T14:29:00.3+00:00"
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