CVE-2014-3708

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-10-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2.x before 2014.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an IP filter in a list active servers API request.

Affected products

OpenStack Nova: from 2014.1 before 2014.1.4; from 2014.2 before 2014.2.1 — fixed in 2014.1.4, 2014.2.1
OpenStack: 5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Nova 2014.1.4, 2014.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000301.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70777
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1358583
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000301.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70777
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1358583

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