OpenStack Compute (Nova) vulnerable to denial of service via XML Entity Expansion attack

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2013-4179 · GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw · PYSEC-2026-875 · Published 16/09/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
nova PyPI	`< 2013.2`	`2013.2`
compute openstack	`= 2013.1.3`	No fix yet
havana openstack	`= havana-1≤ havana-2`	No fix yet

Description

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.

NVD description

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179 · ADVISORY
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199 · WEB
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179 · WEB
bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229 · WEB
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · WEB
opendev.org/openstack/nova · PACKAGE
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html · WEB
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1 · WEB
pypi.org/project/nova · PACKAGE
GitHub Advisory GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw · ADVISORY

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