CVE-2013-4179
EPSS 0.67%OpenStack Compute (Nova) vulnerable to denial of service via XML Entity Expansion attack
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The 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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/novafrom 0, < 2013.1.3-1
- PyPI/novafrom 0, < 2013.2
References (9)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4179
- PATCHhttps://opendev.org/openstack/nova
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179
- WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989707
- WEBhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1