CVE-2016-7498 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/23/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93068 https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-011.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5