PT-2013-4887 · Openstack · Havana+1

Grant Murphy · CVE-2013-4179 · Published 2013-09-16 · Updated 2026-07-06

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Compute (Nova) versions 2013.1.3 and earlier, Havana versions before havana-3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in resource consumption and crash, via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. This is due to an incomplete fix for a previous issue.

Recommendations For OpenStack Compute (Nova) versions 2013.1.3 and earlier, update to a version that includes the complete fix for the issue. For Havana versions before havana-3, update to havana-3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4179

GHSA-J6XH-Q826-55JW

PYSEC-2026-875

RHSA-2013:1199

Affected Products

Havana

Openstack Compute

References · 15

• 🔥 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2026-875 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4179 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4179 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4179 · Security Note
• https://opendev.org/openstack/nova · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4179 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1199 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989707 · Note
• https://pypi.org/project/nova · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6xh-q826-55jw · Note