CVE-2016-0738

moderate-risk

Published 2016-01-29

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server 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.

Do I need to act?

5.8% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.5/10 High

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (3)

Swift

Affected Vendors

Openstack

References (18)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.h...

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432

Vendor Advisory https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303

Vendor Advisory https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG

Patch https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html