CVE-2013-4202

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 13.04
OpenStack Cinder: from 2013.1 through 2013.1.3

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1198.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1198.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229

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