CVE-2014-3608 OpenStack Compute (Nova)'s VMWare driver vulnerable to denial of service

What is CVE-2014-3608?

CVE-2014-3608 is a low-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Oct 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3608?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including nova. It affects 1 product.

Products include Openstack Nova.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3608?

Upgrade nova to 2014.1.3 or later.

Is CVE-2014-3608 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3608 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2017-7214 OpenStack Nova logs sensitive context from notification exceptions Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-17051 OpenStack Nova DoS by rebuilding the same instance with a new image multiple times High 8.6
• CVE-2020-17376 OpenStack Nova Live migration fails to update persistent domain XML High 8.3
• CVE-2017-18191 OpenStack Nova Denial of service attack on the compute host High 7.5
• CVE-2015-3280 OpenStack Compute (nova) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service Medium 6.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3608, GHSA-92hc-c226-32q7, PYSEC-2026-869, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3608.