CVE-2013-4179 (GCVE-0-2013-4179)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-09-16 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:38
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Date Public
2013-08-08 00:00
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