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CVE-2013-4202 OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities

MediumCVSS 4.3 EPSS 2.6%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

The (1) backup (api/contrib/backups.py) and (2) volume transfer (contrib/volume_transfer.py) APIs in OpenStack Cinder Grizzly 2013.1.3 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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
pypi cinder(PyPI) < 7.0.0a0 7.0.0a0
debian/cinder(Debian:12) < 2013.1.2-4 2013.1.2-4
debian/cinder(Debian:13) < 2013.1.2-4 2013.1.2-4
debian/cinder(Debian:14) < 2013.1.2-4 2013.1.2-4
OpenStack cinder >= 2013.1, <= 2013.1.3 No fix listed
Canonical Ubuntu Linux = 13.04 No fix listed

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