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CVE-2013-4155
OpenStack Swift before 1.9.1 in Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana allows authenticated users to cause a denial of service ("superfluous"…
Medium4.0EPSS 1.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
OpenStack Swift before 1.9.1 in Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana allows authenticated users to cause a denial of service ("superfluous" tombstone consumption and Swift cluster slowdown) via a DELETE request with a timestamp that is older than expected.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (8)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1196932 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2737 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40646/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130807 [OSSA 2013-022] Swift Denial of Service using superfluous object tombstones (CVE-2013-4155) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2001-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40645/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40643/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1197 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-wxx2-gqvv-34hx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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