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CVE-2013-4463

OpenStack Nova denial of service through compressed disk images

2.1 LowFix available

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Exploit likelihood

0.37%Down 0.6 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 2.1

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Record
CVE-2013-4463
CVSS 2.0
2.1 LowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-399
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Record
CVE-2013-4463
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-2506 No score

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Record
EUVD-2022-2506
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-5644-2v3h-5w4x No score

OpenStack Nova denial of service through compressed disk images

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Record
GHSA-5644-2v3h-5w4x
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Record
CVE-2013-4463
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2013-4463 No score

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4463
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVGHSA-5644-2v3h-5w4x No score

OpenStack Nova denial of service through compressed disk images

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Record
GHSA-5644-2v3h-5w4x
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVPYSEC-2026-865 No score

OpenStack Nova denial of service through compressed disk images

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Record
PYSEC-2026-865
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2013-4463 No score

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (host file system disk consumption) via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4463
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-2247-1 No score

nova vulnerabilities

Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Nova did not properly set up its sudo configuration. If a different flaw was found in OpenStack Nova, this vulnerability could be used to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-1068)

Bernhard M. Wiedemann and Pedraig Brady discovered that OpenStack Nova did not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 images. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to create a denial of service via disk consumption. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-4463, CVE-2013-4469)

JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso discovered that OpenStack Nova did not enforce SSL connections when Nova was configured to use QPid and qpid_protocol is set to 'ssl'. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. Ubuntu does not use QPid with Nova by default. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-6491)

Loganathan Parthipan discovered that OpenStack Nova did not properly create expected files during KVM live block migration. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to obtain root disk snapshot contents via ephemeral storage. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-7130)

Stanislaw Pitucha discovered that OpenStack Nova did not enforce the image format when rescuing an instance. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to read host files. In the default installation, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt guest AppArmor profile. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2014-0134)

Mark Heckmann discovered that OpenStack Nova did not enforce RBAC policy when adding security group rules via the EC2 API. A remote authenticated user could exploit this to gain unintended access to this API. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2014-0167)

Record
USN-2247-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
nova
PyPI
before 12.0.0a0
12.0.0a0
nova
Debian:12
before 2013.2-3
2013.2-3
nova
Debian:13
before 2013.2-3
2013.2-3
nova
Debian:14
before 2013.2-3
2013.2-3
openstack-nova
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-api
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-cells
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-cert
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-common
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-compute
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
openstack-nova-conductor
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-console
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-doc
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-network
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-objectstore
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-scheduler
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
python-nova
Red Hat:openstack:3::el6
before 0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
nova
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 1:2014.1-0ubuntu1.2, plus listed versions
1:2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu11:2013.2-0ubuntu11:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu11:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu21:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu3
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1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu41:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu11:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu21:2014.1~rc1-0ubuntu11:2014.1~rc2-0ubuntu11:2014.1-0ubuntu1
1:2014.1-0ubuntu1.2

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

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In short

CVE-2013-4463 is a low vulnerability (CVSS 2.1) in Openstack Folsom, published February 6, 2014. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.37%, the 31st percentile. Fixed in nova 12.0.0a0.

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