OpenStack Compute (Nova) vulnerable to denial of service via XML Entity Expansion attack
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 8, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Sep 16, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Reviewed
Feb 8, 2023
Last updated
Feb 8, 2023
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.
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