CVE-2016-0738

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

OpenStack

First reported 9 years ago

2016-01-29 20:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-06 03:05:00

Affected Software

OpenStack Object Storage (swift)

OpenStack Swift 2.4.0

2.4.0

OpenStack Swift 2.5.0

2.5.0

References

FEDORA-2016-2256c80a94

RHSA-2016:0128

RHSA-2016:0155

RHSA-2016:0329

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

81432

https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303

Vendor Advisory

https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG

Vendor Advisory

https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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