OpenStack Compute (Nova) vulnerable to denial of service via XML Entity Expansion attack

GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw · CVE-2013-4179

Published May 17, 2022 · Modified Nov 28, 2024

Description

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.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179
WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199
WEB https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179
WEB https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
WEB https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989707
PACKAGE https://opendev.org/openstack/nova
WEB http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
WEB http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1

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