{"id":"CVE-2014-3608","aliases":["GHSA-92hc-c226-32q7","PYSEC-2026-869"],"title":"OpenStack Compute (Nova)'s VMWare driver vulnerable to denial of service","summary":"OpenStack Compute (Nova)'s VMWare driver vulnerable to denial of service","severity":"medium","vendor":"nova","product":"nova","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["nova < 2014.1.3"],"patched":["nova 2014.1.3"],"published":"2022-05-14","updated":"2026-09-10","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-10T03:49:21.382020451Z","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-92hc-c226-32q7","references":[{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3608"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1781"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1782"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3608"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1338830"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148253"},{"url":"https://opendev.org/openstack/nova"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200228053850/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70220"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/65"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70220"}],"tags":["osv","pip"],"epss":0.01725,"epssPercentile":0.76202,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-08T18:25:47.577Z","slug":"CVE-2014-3608","body":"## Overview\n\nThe VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue state, suspending it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573.\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `nova < 2014.1.3`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `nova 2014.1.3`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":28,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":27.5,"likelihood":0.3,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}