CVE-2013-4179

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

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

Timeline

Published: Sep 16, 2013
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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