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CVE-2013-4202

Published: Sep 16, 2013Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-399
NVD MITRE
4.3CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
2.6%
Top 16.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

The (1) backup (api/contrib/backups.py) and (2) volume transfer (contrib/volume_transfer.py) APIs in OpenStack Cinder Grizzly 2013.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:MAu:NC:NI:NA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected Products

n/an/a
cinderopenstack
On-prem
Cloud & SaaS / cloud-platform
ubuntu linuxcanonical
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
cinderPyPIOSS Libraries
openstackoss-projectUSCloud & SaaSaka openstack foundation
canonicalcommercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical ltd.
pypipackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1198.html
rhn.redhat.com
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
bugs.launchpad.net
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1
ubuntu.com
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Timeline

Published
Sep 16, 2013
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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