GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw

OpenStack Compute (Nova) vulnerable to denial of service via XML Entity Expansion attack

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-4179

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	nova	< 2013.2	2013.2

Details

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

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-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.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179 advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199 web
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179 web
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989707 web
https://opendev.org/openstack/nova package
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html web
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1 web