OpenStack Compute (Nova) Vulnerability: Unauthorized Access to Flavor Properties and Arbitrary Flavor Booting

CVE-2013-2256 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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