Unscored severity · published Sep 16, 2013
CVE-2013-4179
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…
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CVSS
2.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.7% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
Compute · Openstack
2013.1.3 · source: NVD
HA
Havana · Openstack
through havana-2; havana-1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4179
Patch
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
www.ubuntu.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1
Exploit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
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