CVE-2013-2161

Swift: Unchecked user input in Swift XML responses

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

XML injection vulnerability in account/utils.py in OpenStack Swift Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana allows attackers to trigger invalid or spoofed Swift responses via an account name.

Vulnerabilidad de inyección XML en accounts/utils.py en OpenStack Swift Folsom, Grizzly, y Havana, permite a atacantes provocar o suplantar respuestas Swift a través de un nombre de cuenta.

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Swift used the loads function in the pickle Python module when it was configured to use memcached. A remote attacker on the same network as memcached could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. This update adds a new memcache_serialization_support option to support secure json serialization. For details on this new option, please see /usr/share/doc/swift-proxy/memcache.conf-sample. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Alex Gaynor discovered that Swift did not safely generate XML. An attacker could potentially craft an account name to generate arbitrary XML responses to trigger vulnerabilties in software parsing Swift's XML. Various other issues were also addressed.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2013-02-19 CVE Reserved
2013-06-21 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CAPEC

References (7)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/13/4	Mailing List
https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1183884	X_refsource_confirm

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00021.html	2018-10-30
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0993.html	2018-10-30
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2737	2018-10-30
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2161	2013-06-27
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972988	2013-06-27

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Openstack Search vendor "Openstack"		Folsom Search vendor "Openstack" for product "Folsom"				-		-		Affected
Openstack Search vendor "Openstack"		Grizzly Search vendor "Openstack" for product "Grizzly"				-		-		Affected
Openstack Search vendor "Openstack"		Havana Search vendor "Openstack" for product "Havana"				-		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse"				12.3 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse" and version "12.3"		-		Affected