CVE-2013-2030

keystone/middleware/auth_token.py in OpenStack Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana uses an insecure temporary directory for storing signing certificates, which allows local users to spoof servers by pre-creating this directory, which is reused by Nova, as demonstrated using /tmp/keystone-signing-nova on Fedora.

Published: 2013-12-26 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-2030 is rated Low Risk (13.7/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.24%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-2030

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.04% 0.24% +0.20%
2 2023-03-07 0.95% 0.04% -0.91%
3 2022-02-04 0.95%

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-2030

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-2030

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2013-2030

GHSA-pxxv-rv32-2qgv · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: pip — OpenStack Nova uses insecure keystone middleware tmpdir by default

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-2030

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2013-2030 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (nova), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2030
ubuntu low CVE-2013-2030 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nova), 7 status rows across 7 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, upstream): DNE 2, ignored 2, not-affected 2, needed 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2030

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-2030

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
openstack compute 2013.1 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack compute 2013.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack compute 2013.1.2 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack compute 2013.1.3 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack folsom cpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack grizzly 2013.1 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:grizzly:2013.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack havana havana-1 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:havana-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack havana havana-2 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:havana-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack havana havana-3 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:havana-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-2030

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