CVE-2013-4179

OpenStack: Nova XML entities DoS

Severity Score

4.3

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

La extensión de grupos de seguridad en OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana anteriores a havana-3, y anteriores, permite a atacantes remotos causar una denegación de servicio (consumo de recursos y caída) a través de un ataque XML Entity Expansion (XEE). NOTA: este problema es debido a una solución incompleta para CVE-2013-1664.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2013-06-12 CVE Reserved
2013-09-04 CVE Published
2023-03-07 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2024-08-06 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-776: Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

CAPEC

References (5)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229	2024-08-06

URL	Date	SRC
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html	2023-11-07

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1	2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179	2013-09-03
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989707	2013-09-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Openstack Search vendor "Openstack"		Havana Search vendor "Openstack" for product "Havana"				<= havana-2 Search vendor "Openstack" for product "Havana" and version " <= havana-2"		-		Affected
Openstack Search vendor "Openstack"		Havana Search vendor "Openstack" for product "Havana"				havana-1 Search vendor "Openstack" for product "Havana" and version "havana-1"		-		Affected
Openstack Search vendor "Openstack"		Compute Search vendor "Openstack" for product "Compute"				2013.1.3 Search vendor "Openstack" for product "Compute" and version "2013.1.3"		-		Affected