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CVE-2013-1838: PYSEC-2013-44 - OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote

CVE-2013-1838 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2013-03-22

Technologies: nova (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

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.

Affected products

  • PyPI nova

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