---
id: CVE-2014-8333
aliases:
  - GHSA-g63p-mfcm-54c4
  - PYSEC-2026-872
title: OpenStack Nova VMware instance leak potentially leading to compute DoS
summary: OpenStack Nova VMware instance leak potentially leading to compute DoS
severity: medium
vendor: nova
product: nova
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - nova < 12.0.0a0
patched:
  - nova 12.0.0a0
published: '2022-05-14'
updated: '2026-07-07'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-g63p-mfcm-54c4'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8333'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d71445c7d2d2921d10a08f82330f0ab8ef4f7df2
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/e1f8664c9fa83f77f5bb763ffcc3157905ed954c
  - url: 'https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1359138'
  - url: 'https://github.com/openstack/nova'
  - url: >-
      http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000298.html
  - url: 'http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html'
  - url: 'http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html'
  - url: 'http://secunia.com/advisories/60531'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
epss: 0.02022
epssPercentile: 0.79843
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:49.626Z'
---

## Overview

The VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an instance in the resize state.

## Affected packages

- `nova < 12.0.0a0`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `nova 12.0.0a0`