CVE-2013-0208
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5EPSS 2.5%EU EUVD
The boot-from-volume feature in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom and Essex, when using nova-volumes, allows remote authenticated users to boot from other users' volumes via a volume id in the block_device_mapping parameter.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 2.5% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-0243)
- Published
- February 13, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-0243 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- openstack / essex
- openstack / folsom
References
- http://osvdb.org/89661
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51963(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51992(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57613
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1709-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1069904
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902629
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81697
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/243d516cea9d3caa5a8267b12d2f577dcb24193b
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/317cc0af385536dee43ef2addad50a91357fc1ad
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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