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CVE-2013-1838
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows…
Medium4.0EPSS 2.7%
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- redhat
Description
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances) via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (14)
- [openstack] 20130314 [OSSA 2013-008] Nova DoS by allocating all Fixed IPs (CVE-2013-1838) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 58492 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1125468 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1771-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24453/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 52728 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919648 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 52580 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 91303 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24452/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- nova-fixedips-dos(82877) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0709 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/24451/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130314 [OSSA 2013-008] Nova DoS by allocating all Fixed IPs (CVE-2013-1838) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-63fq-8fp9-vhwq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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