{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2573","details":"The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2013.2 through 2013.2.2 does not properly put VMs into RESCUE status, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by requesting the VM be put into rescue and then deleting the image.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:31:52.687028Z","published":"2014-03-25T16:55:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:43:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-2573"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2573"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1269418"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2573"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nova","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/nova@1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1"}]}],"versions":["1:2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu1","1:2013.2-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu2","1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu3","1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu4","1:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu2","1:2014.1~rc1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1~rc2-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1-0ubuntu1","1:2014.1-0ubuntu1.2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-ajax-console-proxy"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-api"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-api-ec2"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-api-metadata"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-api-os-compute"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-api-os-volume"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-baremetal"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-cells"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-cert"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-common"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-compute"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-compute-kvm"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-compute-libvirt"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-compute-lxc"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-compute-qemu"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-compute-vmware"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-compute-xen"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-conductor"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-console"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-consoleauth"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-doc"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-network"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-novncproxy"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-objectstore"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-scheduler"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-spiceproxy"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-volume"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"nova-xvpvncproxy"},{"binary_version":"1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"python-nova"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2573.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"negligible"}]}