CVE-2013-4261

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    CVE-2013-4261

    Published: 29 Oct 2013Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool consumption), as demonstrated using multiple requests that send long strings to an instance console and retrieving the console log.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html, https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1215091, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999164, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/595, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999164, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999271

    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