PT-2016-4394 · Openstack+1 · Openstack Object Storage+1

Romain Le Disez · CVE-2016-0737 · Published 2016-01-29 · Updated 2026-07-06

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) versions prior to 2.4.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming proxy-server resources through a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL, due to the software not properly closing client connections.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.4.0, update to version 2.4.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-0737

GHSA-972C-CFV8-2HQ8

PYSEC-2026-929

RHSA-2016:0126

RHSA-2016:0127

RHSA-2016:0128

RHSA-2016:0155

RHSA-2016:0328

RHSA-2016:0329

USN-3451-1

Affected Products

Openstack Object Storage

Ubuntu

References · 35

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-972c-cfv8-2hq8 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0737 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5223 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0737 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-0737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-0737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-0737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0737 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3451-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-0737 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1466549 · Vendor Advisory