CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1664
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-04-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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.
Affected configurations
• openstack cinder folsom
• openstack compute \(nova\) essex
• openstack compute \(nova\) folsom
• openstack folsom
• openstack grizzly
• openstack keystone essex
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html blog.python.org
- http://bugs.python.org/issue17239 bugs.python.org
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000078.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0657.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0658.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0670.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1 ubuntu.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/4 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1100282 Exploit
- http://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html blog.python.org
- http://bugs.python.org/issue17239 bugs.python.org
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000078.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0657.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0658.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0670.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1 ubuntu.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/4 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1100282 Exploit