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OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 8, 2023

Package

pip swift (pip)

Affected versions

< 2.4.0

Patched versions

2.4.0

Description

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client 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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 29, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Feb 8, 2023
Last updated Feb 8, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2016-0737

GHSA ID

GHSA-972c-cfv8-2hq8

Source code

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