CVE-2013-1838

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
OpenStack Essex: 2012.1
OpenStack Folsom: 2012.2
OpenStack Grizzly: 2012.2

References

http://osvdb.org/91303
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0709.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52580
http://secunia.com/advisories/52728
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1771-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/18
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58492
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125468
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919648
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82877
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg21892.html
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24451/

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