CVE-2014-3708 OpenStack Compute (Nova) Denial of Service vulnerability

What is CVE-2014-3708?

CVE-2014-3708 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Openstack, published on 31 Oct 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2.x before 2014.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an IP filter in a list active servers API request.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3708?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including nova. It affects 2 products.

Products include Openstack Nova, Redhat Openstack.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3708?

Upgrade nova to a fixed version for your release line: 2014.1.4 or 2014.2.1.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-3708 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3708 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Openstack

• 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

All Redhat Openstack vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3708, GHSA-43hc-pwvx-pmfg, PYSEC-2026-863.