CVE-2013-4202: OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities

May 14, 2022 (updated May 14, 2024)

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.

References

bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229
github.com/advisories/GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q
github.com/openstack/cinder
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4202

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