CVE-2013-4278

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256.

Affected products

OpenStack Compute: all versions

References

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-August/000138.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1212179
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-August/000138.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1212179

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