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OpenStack Neutron Denial of Service vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 23, 2024

Package

pip neutron (pip)

Affected versions

< 16.4.1
>= 17.0.0, < 17.2.1
>= 18.0.0, < 18.1.1

Patched versions

16.4.1
17.2.1
18.1.1

Description

An issue was discovered in the routes middleware in OpenStack Neutron before 16.4.1, 17.x before 17.2.1, and 18.x before 18.1.1. By making API requests involving nonexistent controllers, an authenticated user may cause the API worker to consume increasing amounts of memory, resulting in API performance degradation or denial of service.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 8, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Feb 23, 2024
Last updated Feb 23, 2024

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-40797

GHSA ID

GHSA-cpx3-696p-3cw9

Source code

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