CVE-2016-0737
HIGH7.5EPSS 5.8%OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/swiftfrom 0, < 2.4.0-1
- PyPI/swiftfrom 0, < 2.4.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (16)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0737
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-0737
- PATCHhttps://opendev.org/openstack/swift
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0126
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0127
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0128
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0155
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0328
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0329
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0737
- WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1466549
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298924
- WEBhttps://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/2.4.0
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/217750
- WEBhttps://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200228001102/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432