CVE-2013-4202
OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities
EPSS 0.84%
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.
How to fix CVE-2013-4202
To remediate CVE-2013-4202, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/cinder—upgrade to 2013.1.2-4 or later
- —upgrade to 7.0.0a0 or later
Is CVE-2013-4202 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2013.1.2-4
- from 0, < 7.0.0a0