PYSEC-2026-869

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    PYSEC-2026-869

    Published: 6 Jul 2026Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary: OpenStack Compute (Nova)'s VMWare driver vulnerable to denial of service

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3608, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1781, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1782, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3608, https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148253, https://opendev.org/openstack/nova, https://web.archive.org/web/20200228053850/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70220, 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://pypi.org/project/nova, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92hc-c226-32q7

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nova

    Purl: pkg:pypi/nova

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2014.1.3

    Affected versions

    15.1.5

    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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