CVE-2013-4179

OpenStack Compute (Nova) < 2013.2 - Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (3)

Core 3
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
Exploit x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1

Scores

EPSS 0.0067
EPSS Percentile 71.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (4)
openstack/compute 2013.1.3
openstack/havana havana-1
openstack/havana < havana-2
pypi/nova 0 - 2013.2PyPI
Published Sep 16, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026