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USN-2005-1: Cinder vulnerabilities

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USN-2005-1: Cinder vulnerabilities

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

09/16/2013

Created

07/25/2018

Added

04/08/2014

Modified

07/09/2020

Description

The (1) backup (api/contrib/backups.py) and (2) volume transfer (contrib/volume_transfer.py) APIs in OpenStack Cinder Grizzly 2013.1.3 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.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-python-cinder

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2013-4179
CVE - 2013-4179
CVE - 2013-4183
CVE - 2013-4202
RHSA-2013:1198
RHSA-2013:1199
USN-2005-1

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