TI-2013-03918 Aliases CVE-2013-4469 GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when use_cow_images is set to…

LOW 11CWE-399Published 2013-11-02 · Updated 2024-08-06

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: None
User interaction: — Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity: Medium
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · Partial
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-399 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when use_cow_images is set to False, does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) by transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data from Glance. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00442 38th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Partial nova (PyPI): 12.0.0a0Red Hat: 1 without a fix

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	nova (PyPI)	before 12.0.0a0	12.0.0a0	Patch available	GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
nova (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 12.0.0a0 Fixed in 12.0.0a0 Patch available GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx

CPE configurations NVD · 3

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:-:::::::*	not specified by NVD	Vulnerable	OpenStack
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:grizzly:-:::::::*	not specified by NVD	Vulnerable	OpenStack
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:-:::::::*	not specified by NVD	Vulnerable	OpenStack

cpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·OpenStack
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:grizzly:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·OpenStack
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Vulnerable ·OpenStack

Remediation

Fix · GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx nova (PyPI) Fixed in 12.0.0a0 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix

Not affected: 1 product

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2013-4469
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2w87-5qcj-j6gx

References

Exploit 1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1206081

Patch 1

[oss-security] 20131031 [OSSA 2013-029] Potential Nova denial of service through compressed disk images (CVE-2013-4463, CVE-2013-4469)

Advisory 2

Other 4

TI-2013-00195 Packstack: packstack: arbitrary file overwrite via symlink attack CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2013-01930 XML injection vulnerability in account/utils.py in OpenStack Swift Folsom, Grizzly, and… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
TI-2013-00265 Openstack nova: vnc proxy can connect to the wrong vm CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
TI-2013-01648 OpenStack Keystone Folsom (2012.2) does not properly perform revocation checks for… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8
TI-2013-00142 The boot-from-volume feature in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom and Essex, when using… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.5
TI-2013-03945 The XenAPI backend in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana before 2013.2… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.4

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Sources

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