# CVE-2013-6419: Interaction error in OpenStack Nova and Neutron before Havana 2013.2.1 and icehouse-1 does not validate the instance ID of the tenant making

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-858, GHSA-22W9-J288-8P9W
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 12.0.0a0
- Published: 2014-01-07 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- nova (PyPI): fixed in 12.0.0a0

## Description

Interaction error in OpenStack Nova and Neutron before Havana 2013.2.1 and icehouse-1 does not validate the instance ID of the tenant making a request, which allows remote tenants to obtain sensitive metadata by spoofing the device ID that is bound to a port, which is not properly handled by (1) api/metadata/handler.py in Nova and (2) the neutron-metadata-agent (agent/metadata/agent.py) in Neutron.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, nova, upgrade to a fixed version (12.0.0a0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64250
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61428/2/nova/api/metadata/handler.py
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0091.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0231.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/11/8
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61439/1/neutron/agent/metadata/agent.py
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1235450

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