CVE-2013-0270

MEDIUM6.5EPSS 2.7%

OpenStack Keystone Denial of Service vulnerability via a large HTTP request

Published: 5/5/2022Modified: 4/7/2026

Also known as:GHSA-4ppj-4p4v-jf4pDEBIAN-CVE-2013-0270

Description

OpenStack Keystone Grizzly before 2013.1, Folsom, and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large HTTP request, as demonstrated by a long tenant_name when requesting a token.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/keystonefrom 0, < 2013.1.1-2
PyPI/keystonefrom 0, < 8.0.0a0

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (9)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0270
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0270
WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0708.html
WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0270
WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1099025
WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909012
WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/7691276b869a86c2b75631d5bede9f61e030d9d8
WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/82c87e5638ebaf9f166a9b07a0155291276d6fdc
WEBhttps://launchpad.net/keystone/grizzly/2013.1