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CVE-2016-7498

Published: 27 September 2016

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
ratliff
Note from Debian: Relates to OSSA-2015-017 (CVE-2015-3280)
which was fixed and reintroduced with 13.0.0 and refixed in 13.1.0.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
nova
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.6])
upstream
Released (2:13.1.0-1)
xenial Not vulnerable
(2:13.1.1-0ubuntu1)
yakkety Not vulnerable

zesty Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H