CVE-2026-49017
HIGHOpenstack Swift - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Title source: ruleDescription
In OpenStack Swift before 2.36.2 and 2.37.2, s3api middleware enters an infinite loop when processing a truncated aws-chunked PUT request body. The StreamingInput class repeatedly appends an empty buffer and re-reads, causing the proxy-server worker handling the request to become permanently unresponsive with increasing CPU and memory consumption. An authenticated attacker can systematically exhaust all proxy-server workers, resulting in denial of service. The defect was introduced in Swift 2.36.0.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2152205
Technical Description technical-description
https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/swift/+/988093
Scores
CVSS v4
7.1
EPSS
0.0027
EPSS Percentile
18.2%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-835
Status
published
Products (3)
OpenStack/Swift
2.35.1 - 2.35.3
OpenStack/Swift
2.36.0 - 2.36.2
OpenStack/Swift
2.37.0 - 2.37.2
Published
May 27, 2026
Tracked Since
May 27, 2026