CVE-2016-7498

Publication date 27 September 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

OpenStack Compute (nova) 13.0.0 does not properly delete instances from compute nodes, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting instances while in the resize state. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2015-3280 regression.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nova	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored

Notes

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Note from Debian: Relates to OSSA-2015-017 (CVE-2015-3280) which was fixed and reintroduced with 13.0.0 and refixed in 13.1.0.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H