CVE-2013-6419
Interaction 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 1.9% (79th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-1885)
- Published
- January 7, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-1885 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openstack / havana
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0091.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/11/8(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64250
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1235450
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61428/2/nova/api/metadata/handler.py
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61439/1/neutron/agent/metadata/agent.py
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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