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.

CVSS v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229	Exploit
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:havana-1:::::::*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2013-09-16 12:14

Updated : 2023-02-12 20:45

NVD link : CVE-2013-4179

Mitre link : CVE-2013-4179

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Products Affected

openstack

compute
havana

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