Description
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.
Published: 2016-01-29
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 5.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
AI Analysis

Analysis and contextual insights are available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

Additional remediation guidance may be available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-3858 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7p OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3451-1 OpenStack Swift vulnerabilities
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:30:04.348Z

Reserved: 2015-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-0738

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-01-29T20:59:03.810

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-0738

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-01-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-0738 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses