CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-0738

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-01-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-01-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.

Affected configurations

• openstack swift (<= 2.3.0) • openstack swift 2.4.0 • openstack swift 2.5.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References