CVE-2013-4179
OpenStack Compute (Nova) vulnerable to denial of service via XML Entity Expansion attack
EPSS 0.67%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2013-4179
To remediate CVE-2013-4179, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/nova—upgrade to 2013.1.3-1 or later
- PyPI/nova—upgrade to 2013.2 or later
Is CVE-2013-4179 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2013.1.3-1
- from 0, < 2013.2