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CVE-2013-2096

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2096 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana. The flaw allows local users to exhaust host file system disk space by creating QCOW2 images with a large virtual size that does not reflect the actual data stored. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial availability loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:grizzly:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: novaFixed in: 12.0.0a0
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3Fixed in: openstack-nova

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-m674-hmx2-ffhqmedium

OpenStack Compute (Nova) does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2013-2096Moderate

Nova: fails to verify image virtual size denial of service

May 16, 2013

References

lists.openstack.org / pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-May/000102.html
Vendor Advisory
review.openstack.org
review.openstack.org
review.openstack.org
securityfocus.com / bid/59924
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1831-1