CVE-2013-4278

low
Published 2022-05-17 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
3.5

Description

The "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256.

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-2013-4278

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-August/000138.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2013.1.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2013.1.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed2013.1.3-1
debian debiansidfixed2013.1.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2013.1.3-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPInova<12.0.0a012.0.0a0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openstackcompute-

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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