VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2013-6437

CVSS score4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.04%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-03-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.2.2 and icehouse before icehouse-2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating and deleting instances with unique os_type settings, which triggers the creation of a new ephemeral disk backing file.

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