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CVE-2014-8333

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-8333 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the VMware driver for OpenStack Compute (Nova) versions prior to 2014.1.4, affecting OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments. This low-severity flaw (CVSS 4.0) allows remote authenticated users to consume disk space by repeatedly deleting instances stuck in a resize state. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2014.1, < 2014.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0201 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: novaFixed in: 12.0.0a0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2014.1.4-3.el6ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2014.1.4-3.el7ost
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: openstack-nova

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-g63p-mfcm-54c4medium

OpenStack Nova VMware instance leak potentially leading to compute DoS

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-8333Moderate

openstack-nova: Nova VMware instance in resize state may leak

Aug 20, 2014

References

lists.openstack.org / pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000298.html
PatchVendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html
Third Party Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net / nova/+bug/1359138
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/60531
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory