CVE-2013-4179: openstack compute

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-4179 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in openstack compute. EPSS estimates a 2.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 16-09-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.