CVE-2014-2573
The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote…
- 2.3LowCVSS base score
- 0.70%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.3 | AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.70% · top 46% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
4
- [oss-security] 20140321 Re: CVE request for vulnerability in OpenStack Nova (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 57498 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1269418 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140321 CVE request for vulnerability in OpenStack Nova (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-0037 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jv34-xvjq-ppch (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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