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CVE-2013-4261

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 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: yes
• Published: 2013-10-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool consumption), as demonstrated using multiple requests that send long strings to an instance console and retrieving the console log.

Affected products

• OpenStack Folsom: through -
• OpenStack Grizzly: through -
• OpenStack: 3.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/595
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1215091
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999164
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999271
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/595
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1215091
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999164
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999271

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