Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2013· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2013-4179

Description

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
novaPyPI	< 2013.2	2013.2

Affected products

OpenStack/Compute
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:compute:2013.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
OpenStack/Havana2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=havana-2
- cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:havana-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:apk/chainguard/openstack-nova-2026.1 pkg:pypi/nova
< 0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0
- (no CPE)range: < 2013.2

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.htmlnvdPatchVendor AdvisoryWEB
bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229nvdExploitWEB
github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jwghsaADVISORY
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179ghsaADVISORY
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1nvdWEB
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199ghsaWEB
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179ghsaWEB
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgighsaWEB
opendev.org/openstack/novaghsaPACKAGE

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