GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-cpx3-696p-3cw9 OpenStack Neutron Denial of Service vulnerability
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-40797
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- neutron
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
- Reviewed
- 2024-02-23
Affected packages
• PyPI neutron: < 16.4.1 → fixed in 16.4.1
• PyPI neutron: >= 17.0.0, < 17.2.1 → fixed in 17.2.1
• PyPI neutron: >= 18.0.0, < 18.1.1 → fixed in 18.1.1
Description
An issue was discovered in the routes middleware in OpenStack Neutron before 16.4.1, 17.x before 17.2.1, and 18.x before 18.1.1. By making API requests involving nonexistent controllers, an authenticated user may cause the API worker to consume increasing amounts of memory, resulting in API performance degradation or denial of service.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-40797 An issue was discovered in the routes middleware in OpenStack Neutron before 16.4.1, 17.x before 17.2.1, and 18.x before 18.1.1. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40797 advisory
- https://github.com/openstack/neutron/commit/e610a5eb9e71aa2549fb11e2139370d227787da2 web
- https://github.com/openstack/neutron package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/neutron/PYSEC-2021-329.yaml web
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1942179 web
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2021-006.html web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/09/2 web