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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-0037 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-jv34-xvjq-ppch OpenStack Nova VMWare driver leaks rescued images
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:21:35.993Z

Reserved: 2014-03-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-2573

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-03-25T16:55:28.677

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2014-2573

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-01-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-2573 - Bugzilla

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