CVE-2013-4769

medium

Published 2014-12-26 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

The cloud controller (aka CLC) component in Eucalyptus 3.3.x and 3.4.x before 3.4.2, when the dns.recursive.enabled setting is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via spoofed DNS queries.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
eucalyptus	eucalyptus	`3.3.0`
eucalyptus	eucalyptus	`3.3.1`
eucalyptus	eucalyptus	`3.3.2`
eucalyptus	eucalyptus	`3.4.0`
eucalyptus	eucalyptus	`3.4.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-19

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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