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CVE-2013-4185

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-3 does not properly handle network source security gr…

Impact

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2013.1.3 and Havana before havana-3 does not properly handle network source security group policy updates, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (nova-network consumption) via a large number of server-creation operations, which triggers a large number of update requests.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
OpenstackCompute
from 2013.1 before 2013.1.3
from 2013.2 before 2013.2.3
RedhatOpenstack
Version 3.0

Weakness classification

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