PYSEC-2026-872

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-06 08:03 - Updated: 2026-07-06 08:03
VLAI
Details

The VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an instance in the resize state.

Impacted products
Name purl
nova pkg:pypi/nova

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "nova",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/nova"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "12.0.0a0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2014-8333",
    "GHSA-g63p-mfcm-54c4"
  ],
  "details": "The VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an instance in the resize state.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2026-872",
  "modified": "2026-07-06T08:03:21.812593Z",
  "published": "2026-07-06T08:03:21.812593Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8333"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d71445c7d2d2921d10a08f82330f0ab8ef4f7df2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/e1f8664c9fa83f77f5bb763ffcc3157905ed954c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1359138"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/openstack/nova"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000298.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/60531"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/nova"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g63p-mfcm-54c4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "OpenStack Nova VMware instance leak potentially leading to compute DoS"
}



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