CVE-2013-4155

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    CVE-2013-4155

    Published: 20 Aug 2013Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: OpenStack Swift before 1.9.1 in Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana allows authenticated users to cause a denial of service ("superfluous" tombstone consumption and Swift cluster slowdown) via a DELETE request with a timestamp that is older than expected.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1197.html, http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2737, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2001-1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/07/6, https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1196932, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40643/, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40645/, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40646/

    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
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