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PYSEC-2026-875

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-06 08:03 - Updated: 2026-07-07 11:30
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Details

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.

Impacted products
Name purl
nova pkg:pypi/nova

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "nova",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/nova"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2013.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "15.1.5",
        "16.1.6",
        "16.1.7",
        "16.1.8",
        "17.0.10",
        "17.0.11",
        "17.0.12",
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        "18.0.2",
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        "18.1.0",
        "18.2.0",
        "18.2.1",
        "18.2.2",
        "18.2.3",
        "18.3.0",
        "19.0.0",
        "19.0.0.0rc1",
        "19.0.0.0rc2",
        "19.0.1",
        "19.0.2",
        "19.0.3",
        "19.1.0",
        "19.2.0",
        "19.3.0",
        "19.3.1",
        "19.3.2",
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        "20.0.0.0rc2",
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        "20.1.1",
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        "20.3.0",
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        "21.2.1",
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        "21.2.3",
        "21.2.4",
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    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2013-4179",
    "GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw"
  ],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2026-875",
  "modified": "2026-07-07T11:30:50.186570Z",
  "published": "2026-07-06T08:03:26.993196Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989707"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://opendev.org/openstack/nova"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/nova"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "OpenStack Compute (Nova) vulnerable to denial of service via XML Entity Expansion attack"
}



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