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    CVE-2013-4179

    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.

    Published:Aug 8, 2013
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Sep 16, 2013
    EPSS Score:0.00665
    CVSS Score:4.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Openstack
    Product
    Compute
    Vendor
    Openstack
    Product
    Havana
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Openstack

    Exploits

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229

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