CVE-2013-4179

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

OpenStack Compute: 2013.1.3
OpenStack Havana: through havana-2; havana-1

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
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229

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