OpenStack Keystone Denial of Service vulnerability via a large HTTP request

GHSA-4ppj-4p4v-jf4p · CVE-2013-0270

Published May 5, 2022 · Modified Apr 7, 2026

Description

OpenStack Keystone Grizzly before 2013.1, Folsom, and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large HTTP request, as demonstrated by a long tenant_name when requesting a token.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0270
WEB https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/7691276b869a86c2b75631d5bede9f61e030d9d8
WEB https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/82c87e5638ebaf9f166a9b07a0155291276d6fdc
WEB https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0270
WEB https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1099025
WEB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909012
WEB https://launchpad.net/keystone/grizzly/2013.1
WEB http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0708.html

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