openstack/swift · Security
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7p
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-0738
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
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.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0738 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303 ↗
- https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG ↗
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0126 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0127 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0128 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0155 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0328 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0329 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0738 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298905 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228001102/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.html ↗
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html ↗
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html ↗
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7p ↗