VMWare Driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Allows Quota Bypass and Denial of Service

CVE-2014-2573 · LOW Severity

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

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the image.

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