CVE-2016-0738

HIGH

OpenStack Swift < 2.3.1 - Denial of Service via Large Object URL Requests

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0580
EPSS Percentile 90.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (4)
openstack/swift 2.4.0
openstack/swift 2.5.0
openstack/swift < 2.3.0
pypi/swift 0 - 2.3.1PyPI
Published Jan 29, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026