CVE-2013-4179

medium
Published 2013-09-16 · Modified 2024-11-28
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
4.3

Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4179

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2013.1.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2013.1.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed2013.1.3-1
debian debiansidfixed2013.1.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2013.1.3-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPInova<2013.22013.2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openstackhavana{"endIncluding":"havana-2"}
openstackhavanahavana-1
openstackcompute2013.1.3

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.