CVE-2013-4179

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-4179
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-09-16 19:14:38 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Compute 2013.1.3 All All All
Application Openstack Havana havana-1 All All All
Application Openstack Havana All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Bug #1190229 “[OSSA 2013-023] Potential unsafe XML usage (CVE-20...” : Bugs : OpenStack Security Advisory af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.launchpad.net Exploit
USN-2005-1: Cinder vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
CVE-2013-4179 - Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
989707 – (CVE-2013-4179) CVE-2013-4179 OpenStack: Nova XML entities DoS MITRE bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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