CVE-2014-3608

Severity: low (CVSS 2.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue state, suspending it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573.

Affected products

OpenStack Nova: from 2013.2 through 2013.2.4; from 2014.1 before 2014.1.3 — fixed in 2014.1.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Nova 2014.1.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/65
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70220
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/65
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70220
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830

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