CVE-2013-4202 OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities

What is CVE-2013-4202?

CVE-2013-4202 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 Sep 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4202?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including cinder. It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Openstack Cinder.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4202?

Upgrade cinder to 7.0.0a0 or later.

Is CVE-2013-4202 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4202 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4202, GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q, PYSEC-2026-790.