CVE-2013-4202
EPSS 0.84%OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The (1) backup (api/contrib/backups.py) and (2) volume transfer (contrib/volume_transfer.py) APIs in OpenStack Cinder Grizzly 2013.1.3 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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/cinderfrom 0, < 2013.1.2-4
- PyPI/cinderfrom 0, < 7.0.0a0
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4202
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4202
- PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/cinder
- WEBhttp://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/2023eecc4b1a35daf42a64fa01967ed12c7d017b
- WEBhttp://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/4ad95dba4fccbbc0df923dea0dc9e5c3ac9f4cc2
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1198.html
- WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
- WEBhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1