CVE-2016-0738

HIGH

OpenStack Swift <2.3.1-2.5.1 - DoS

Title source: llm

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)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

[Vendor Advisory] https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303

[Vendor Advisory] https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG

View Writeup ZIP pw:eip

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0580

EPSS Percentile 90.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-399

Status draft

Affected Products (4)

openstack/swift < 2.3.0

openstack/swift

openstack/swift

pypi/swift < 2.3.1PyPI

Timeline

Published Jan 29, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026