CVE-2013-7130

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The i_create_images_and_backing (aka create_images_and_backing) method in libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Havana, and Icehouse, when using KVM live block migration, does not properly create all expected files, which allows attackers to obtain snapshot root disk contents of other users via ephemeral storage.

Affected products

OpenStack Compute: 2012.2, 2013.1, 2013.1.1, 2013.1.2, 2013.1.3
OpenStack Grizzly: all versions
OpenStack Havana: all versions
OpenStack Icehouse: all versions

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127732.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127735.html
http://osvdb.org/102416
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/56450
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/23/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65106
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2247-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1251590
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90652
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/68658/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/68659/

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