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CVE-2013-4428

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) Folsom, Grizzly before 2013.1.4, and Havana before 2013.2, when the download_image policy is configured, does not properly restrict access to cached images, which allows remote authenticated users to read otherwise restricted images via an image UUID.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.10, 13.04
• OpenStack Glance: from 2012.2 through 2012.2.4; from 2013.1 before 2013.1.4; 2013.2-milestone1, 2013.2-milestone2, 2013.2-milestone3 — fixed in 2013.1.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Glance 2013.1.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1525.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/15/8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/9
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63159
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2003-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1235226
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1235378
• https://launchpad.net/glance/+milestone/2013.1.4
• https://launchpad.net/glance/+milestone/2013.2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1525.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/15/8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/9

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