CVE-2013-4155

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

OpenStack Swift before 1.9.1 in Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana allows authenticated users to cause a denial of service ("superfluous" tombstone consumption and Swift cluster slowdown) via a DELETE request with a timestamp that is older than expected.

Affected products

OpenStack Folsom: all versions
OpenStack Grizzly: all versions
OpenStack Havana: all versions
OpenStack Swift: through 1.9.0; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.0-rc1, 1.1.0-rc2 (+25)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1197.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2737
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/07/6
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2001-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1196932
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40643/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40645/
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40646/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1197.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2737
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/07/6
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2001-1

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