CVE-2013-1838

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    CVE-2013-1838

    Published: 22 Mar 2013Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0709.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/52580, http://secunia.com/advisories/52728, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919648, http://osvdb.org/91303, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1771-1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/18, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58492, https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125468, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82877, https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg21892.html, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24451/, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24452/, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24453/

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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