CVE-2013-4179

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-09-16

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Compute (Openstack)
• Havana (Openstack)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229