CVE-2013-4278

low

Published 2022-05-17 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.5

Description

The "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2013.1.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`2013.1.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`2013.1.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2013.1.3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2013.1.3-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	nova	`<12.0.0a0`	`12.0.0a0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openstack	compute	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.