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CVE-2016-0737
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial…
High7.5EPSS 3.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client 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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 9.9% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (9)
- RHSA-2016:0329 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 81432 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0128 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/217750/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0155 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1466549 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/2.4.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-972c-cfv8-2hq8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .