VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-7498

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-09-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

OpenStack Compute (nova) 13.0.0 does not properly delete instances from compute nodes, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting instances while in the resize state. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2015-3280 regression.

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