CVE-2013-0208
Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—
The boot-from-volume feature in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom and Essex, when using nova-volumes, allows remote authenticated users to boot from other users' volumes via a volume id in the block_device_mapping parameter.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Base score: 6.5
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.50%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 84
- Score date: 10/6/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (3)
CWEs
- CWE-264
References
- http://osvdb.org/89661
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51963
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51992
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57613
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1709-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1069904
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902629
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81697
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/243d516cea9d3caa5a8267b12d2f577dcb24193b
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/317cc0af385536dee43ef2addad50a91357fc1ad
- http://osvdb.org/89661
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51963
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51992
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57613
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1709-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1069904
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902629
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81697
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/243d516cea9d3caa5a8267b12d2f577dcb24193b
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/317cc0af385536dee43ef2addad50a91357fc1ad
Raw JSON (NVD)
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