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CVE-2014-0167

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0167 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Nova EC2 API security group implementation within OpenStack Compute (Nova) versions 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to bypass Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policies for methods like add_rules, remove_rules, and destroy when non-default policies are in use. With a CVSS score of 6.0, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2013.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0165 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 1,424 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: novaFixed in: 2013.2.4
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2013.2.3-12.el6ost
View patch
ubuntuvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)Fixed in: openstack-nova
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3Fixed in: openstack-nova

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-p258-xmh3-72pvmedium

OpenStack Compute (Nova) allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via API requests

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-0167Moderate

openstack-nova: RBAC policy not properly enforced in Nova EC2 API

Apr 9, 2014

References

launchpad.net / bugs/1290537
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/26
Patch
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2247-1