CVE-2014-3608: Openstack Nova

Low severity, CVSS 2.7. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VMWare driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the quota limit and cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by putting the VM into the rescue state, suspending it, which puts into an ERROR state, and then deleting the image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2573.

Affected products

• Openstack Nova: from 2013.2, up to and including 2013.2.4; from 2014.1, before 2014.1.3 (fixed in 2014.1.3)

Published 2014-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.