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USN-1731-1: OpenStack Cinder vulnerability

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USN-1731-1: OpenStack Cinder vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/02/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The XML libraries for Python 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, and 2.6, as used in OpenStack Keystone Essex, Folsom, and Grizzly; Compute (Nova) Essex and Folsom; Cinder Folsom; Django; and possibly other products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-cinder

References

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