{"id":"CVE-2013-4278","aliases":["GHSA-43cm-73px-5v4m","PYSEC-2026-862"],"title":"OpenStack Compute (Nova) Resource limit circumvention in Nova private flavors","summary":"OpenStack Compute (Nova) Resource limit circumvention in Nova private flavors","severity":"low","vendor":"nova","product":"nova","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["nova < 12.0.0a0"],"patched":["nova 12.0.0a0"],"published":"2022-05-17","updated":"2026-07-07","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-43cm-73px-5v4m","references":[{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4278"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/4054cc4a22a1fea997dec76afb5646fd6c6ea6b9"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/6825959560e06725d26625fd21f5c0b78b305492"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8b686195afe7e6dfb46c56c1ef2fe9c993d8e495"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1212179"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/nova"},{"url":"http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-August/000138.html"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html"}],"tags":["osv","pip"],"epss":0.01509,"epssPercentile":0.7288,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-08T18:25:45.237Z","slug":"CVE-2013-4278","body":"## Overview\n\nThe \"create an instance\" API in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:is_public property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id.  NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2256.\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `nova < 12.0.0a0`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `nova 12.0.0a0`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":14,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":13.8,"likelihood":0.3,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}