{"id":"CVE-2013-6419","aliases":["GHSA-22w9-j288-8p9w","PYSEC-2026-858"],"title":"OpenStack Nova Router metadata queries are not restricted by tenant","summary":"OpenStack Nova Router metadata queries are not restricted by tenant","severity":"medium","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-22w9-j288-8p9w","references":[{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6419"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/07006be9165d1008ca0382b6f0ad25b13a676a55"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/af2f823107010933ecd94a9c938f8b739baaecb7"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/bce36e9bdb1fcb9658f7b684d160e656e88d816c"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1235450"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/nova"},{"url":"https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61428/2/nova/api/metadata/handler.py"},{"url":"https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61439/1/neutron/agent/metadata/agent.py"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0091.html"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/11/8"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64250"}],"tags":["osv","pip"],"epss":0.01852,"epssPercentile":0.77876,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-08T18:25:44.123Z","slug":"CVE-2013-6419","body":"## Overview\n\nInteraction error in OpenStack Nova and Neutron before Havana 2013.2.1 and icehouse-1 does not validate the instance ID of the tenant making a request, which allows remote tenants to obtain sensitive metadata by spoofing the device ID that is bound to a port, which is not properly handled by (1) api/metadata/handler.py in Nova and (2) the neutron-metadata-agent (`agent/metadata/agent.py`) in Neutron.\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":28,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":27.5,"likelihood":0.4,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}