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Ubuntu: USN-7465-1 (CVE-2018-16848): Mistral vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Jun 15, 2020

Added

Apr 29, 2025

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

A Denial of Service (DoS) condition is possible in OpenStack Mistral in versions up to and including 7.0.3. Submitting a specially crafted workflow definition YAML file containing nested anchors can lead to resource exhaustion culminating in a denial of service.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-mistral-apiubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-mistralubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-mistral-lib

References

CVE-2018-16848
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-16848
CWE-400
EUVD-EUVD-2020-0112
UBUNTU-USN-7465-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-0112

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