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PYSEC-2026-790

OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-790 — cinder: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'cinder>=7.0.0a0'

Details

The (1) backup (api/contrib/backups.py) and (2) volume transfer (contrib/volume_transfer.py) APIs in OpenStack Cinder Grizzly 2013.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.

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Affected packages

PyPI/cinder

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 7.0.0a0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'cinder>=7.0.0a0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4202[ADVISORY]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/cinder[PACKAGE]
http://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/2023eecc4b1a35daf42a64fa01967ed12c7d017b[WEB]
http://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/4ad95dba4fccbbc0df923dea0dc9e5c3ac9f4cc2[WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1198.html[WEB]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/cinder[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q[ADVISORY]