CVE-2013-4179
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2013.1.3-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2013.1.3-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2013.1.3-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2013.1.3-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2013.1.3-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | nova | <2013.2 | 2013.2 |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989707
- https://opendev.org/openstack/nova
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4179
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.