CVE-2013-4179

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    CVE-2013-4179

    Published: 16 Sept 2013Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html

    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