CVE-2016-0738

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Jan 29, 2016
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2016-0738: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix