CVE-2023-3637 (GCVE-0-2023-3637)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-25 12:47
Modified
2025-11-20 17:39
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw was found in openstack-neutron. This flaw allows a remote authenticated user to query a list of security groups for an invalid project. This issue creates resources that are unconstrained by the user's quota. If a malicious user were to submit a significant number of requests, this could lead to a denial of service.
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Unaffected: 1:15.3.5-2.20230216175503.el8ost   < *
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