CVE-2013-4155

Summary

CVECVE-2013-4155
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-08-20 22:55:04 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionOpenStack Swift before 1.9.1 in Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana allows authenticated users to cause a denial of service ("superfluous" tombstone consumption and Swift cluster slowdown) via a DELETE request with a timestamp that is older than expected.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Folsom - All All All
Application Openstack Grizzly - All All All
Application Openstack Havana - All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.0.0 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.0.1 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.0.2 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.1.0 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.1.0 rc1 All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.1.0 rc2 All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.2.0 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.2.0 gamma1 All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.2.0 rc1 All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.3.0 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.3.0 gamma1 All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.3.0 rc1 All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.4.0 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.4.1 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.4.2 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.4.3 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.4.4 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.4.5 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.4.6 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.4.7 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.4.8 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.5.0 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.6.0 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.7.0 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.7.2 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.7.4 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.7.5 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.7.6 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.8.0 All All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.8.0 rc1 All All
Application Openstack Swift 1.8.0 rc2 All All
Application Openstack Swift All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - [OSSA 2013-022] Swift Denial of Service using superfluous object tombstones (CVE-2013-4155) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Gerrit Code Review af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 review.openstack.org
USN-2001-1: Swift vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Debian -- Page not found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Gerrit Code Review af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 review.openstack.org
Bug #1196932 “[OSSA 2013-022] Possibly DoS attack using object t...” : Bugs : OpenStack Object Storage (swift) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.launchpad.net
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Gerrit Code Review af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 review.openstack.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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