CVE-2014-2573: Openstack Compute

Low severity, CVSS 2.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openstack Compute: version 2013.2 only; version 2013.2.1 only; version 2013.2.2 only

Published 2014-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.