medium4.3
CVE-2013-4179
OpenStack Compute (Nova) vulnerable to denial of service via XML Entity Expansion attack
Impact
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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | nova | <= 2013.1.3 | 2013.2 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Openstack | Havana | through havana-2 Version havana-1 |
| Openstack | Compute | Version 2013.1.3 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989707