CVE-2016-7498

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Published 2016-09-27 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

6.8

VIR risk

6.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

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-2016-7498

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-011.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2:13.1.0-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2:13.1.0-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2:13.1.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2:13.1.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2:13.1.0-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openstack	compute_\(nova\)	`13.0.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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