CVE-2013-1664

Summary

CVECVE-2013-1664
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-04-03 00:55:00 UTC
Updated2013-05-15 03:35:00 UTC
DescriptionThe XML libraries for Python 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, and 2.6, as used in OpenStack Keystone Essex, Folsom, and Grizzly; Compute (Nova) Essex and Folsom; Cinder Folsom; Django; and possibly other products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Cinder Folsom - All All All
Application Openstack Cinder Folsom - All All All
Application Openstack Compute Nova Essex - All All All
Application Openstack Compute Nova Folsom - All All All
Application Openstack Compute Nova Essex - All All All
Application Openstack Compute Nova Essex - All All All
Application Openstack Compute Nova Folsom - All All All
Application Openstack Compute Nova Folsom - All All All
Application Openstack Folsom - All All All
Application Openstack Folsom - All All All
Application Openstack Grizzly - All All All
Application Openstack Grizzly - All All All
Application Openstack Keystone Essex - All All All
Application Openstack Keystone Essex - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
oss-security - [OSSA 2013-004] Information leak and Denial of Service using XML entities (CVE-2013-1664, CVE-2013-1665) MLIST www.openwall.com
oss-security - REJECT CVE-2013-0278, CVE-2013-0279 and CVE-2013-0280 MLIST www.openwall.com
Bug #1100282 “[OSSA 2013-004] DoS through XML entity expansion (...” : Bugs : OpenStack Compute (nova) CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Exploit
OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software » Message: [openstack-announce] [OSSA 2013-004] Information leak and Denial of Service using XML entities (CVE-2013-1664, CVE-2013-1665) MLIST lists.openstack.org Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
USN-1757-1: Django vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU ubuntu.com
Python Insider: Announcing defusedxml, Fixes for XML Security Issues CONFIRM blog.python.org
Issue 17239: XML vulnerabilities in Python - Python tracker CONFIRM bugs.python.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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