CVE-2013-0208

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The boot-from-volume feature in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom and Essex, when using nova-volumes, allows remote authenticated users to boot from other users' volumes via a volume id in the block_device_mapping parameter.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
OpenStack Essex: all versions
OpenStack Folsom: all versions

References

http://osvdb.org/89661
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51963
http://secunia.com/advisories/51992
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57613
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1709-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1069904
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902629
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81697
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/243d516cea9d3caa5a8267b12d2f577dcb24193b
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/317cc0af385536dee43ef2addad50a91357fc1ad

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