CVE-2013-4179

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-4179
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-09-16 19:14:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:16:00 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

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug #1190229 “[OSSA 2013-023] Potential unsafe XML usage (CVE-20...” : Bugs : OpenStack Security Advisory CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Exploit
989707 – (CVE-2013-4179) CVE-2013-4179 OpenStack: Nova XML entities DoS MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
USN-2005-1: Cinder vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE-2013-4179 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
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