GHSA-4ppj-4p4v-jf4p

OpenStack Keystone Denial of Service vulnerability via a large HTTP request

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-0270

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	keystone	< 8.0.0a0	8.0.0a0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

OpenStack Keystone Grizzly before 2013.1, Folsom, and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large HTTP request, as demonstrated by a long tenant_name when requesting a token.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0270 advisory
https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/7691276b869a86c2b75631d5bede9f61e030d9d8 web
https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/82c87e5638ebaf9f166a9b07a0155291276d6fdc web
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0270 web
https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1099025 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909012 web
https://launchpad.net/keystone/grizzly/2013.1 web
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0708.html web