CVE-2013-2256

medium
Published 2022-05-14 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.0
VIR risk
6.0

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-2 does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information (flavor properties), boot arbitrary flavors, and possibly have other unspecified impacts by guessing the flavor id.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2256

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/281

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2013.1.2-3
debian debianbullseyefixed2013.1.2-3
debian debianforkyfixed2013.1.2-3
debian debiansidfixed2013.1.2-3
debian debiantrixiefixed2013.1.2-3

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPInova<2013.1.32013.1.3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openstacknova{"startIncluding":"2013.1","endExcluding":"2013.1.3"}2013.1.3
openstacknova2013.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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