CVE-2013-1664

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    CVE-2013-1664

    Published: 3 Apr 2013Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The XML libraries for Python 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, and 2.6, as used in OpenStack Keystone Essex, Folsom, and Grizzly; Compute (Nova) Essex and Folsom; Cinder Folsom; Django; and possibly other products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

    References: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000078.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0657.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0658.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0670.html, http://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html, https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1100282, http://bugs.python.org/issue17239, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/2, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/4

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High