OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities

GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q · CVE-2013-4202

Published May 14, 2022 · Modified May 19, 2024

Description

The (1) backup (api/contrib/backups.py) and (2) volume transfer (contrib/volume_transfer.py) APIs in OpenStack Cinder Grizzly 2013.1.3 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-2013-4202
WEB https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
PACKAGE https://github.com/openstack/cinder
WEB http://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/2023eecc4b1a35daf42a64fa01967ed12c7d017b
WEB http://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/4ad95dba4fccbbc0df923dea0dc9e5c3ac9f4cc2
WEB http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1198.html
WEB http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1

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