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CVE-2016-0737

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-01-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.

Affected products

• OpenStack Swift: through 2.3.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1466549
• https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/2.4.0
• https://review.openstack.org/#/c/217750/
• https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html

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