OSSA-2013-004: Information leak and Denial of Service using XML entities¶
- Date:
February 19, 2013
- CVE:
CVE-2013-1664, CVE-2013-1665
Affects¶
Keystone: All versions
Nova: All versions
Cinder: All versions
Description¶
Jonathan Murray from NCC Group, Joshua Harlow from Yahoo! and Stuart Stent independently reported a vulnerabilities in the parsing of XML requests in Python XML libraries used in Keystone, Nova and Cinder. By using entities in XML requests, an unauthenticated attacker may consume excessive resources on the Keystone, Nova or Cinder API servers, resulting in a denial of service and potentially a crash (CVE-2013-1664). Authenticated attackers may also leverage XML entities to read the content of a local file on the Keystone API server (CVE-2013-1665). This only affects servers with XML support enabled.
Patches¶
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22309 (Grizzly)
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22310 (Grizzly)
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22315 (Grizzly)
Credits¶
Jonathan Murray from NCC Group (CVE-2013-1664, CVE-2013-1665)
Joshua Harlow from Yahoo! (CVE-2013-1664, CVE-2013-1665)
Stuart Stent (CVE-2013-1664, CVE-2013-1665)
