CVE-2013-6419

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Interaction error in OpenStack Nova and Neutron before Havana 2013.2.1 and icehouse-1 does not validate the instance ID of the tenant making a request, which allows remote tenants to obtain sensitive metadata by spoofing the device ID that is bound to a port, which is not properly handled by (1) api/metadata/handler.py in Nova and (2) the neutron-metadata-agent (agent/metadata/agent.py) in Neutron.

Affected products

OpenStack Havana: through havana-1

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0091.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/11/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64250
https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1235450
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61428/2/nova/api/metadata/handler.py
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61439/1/neutron/agent/metadata/agent.py
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0091.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/11/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64250
https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1235450

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