CVE-2013-4769 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4769?

CVE-2013-4769 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Dec 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The cloud controller (aka CLC) component in Eucalyptus 3.3.x and 3.4.x before 3.4.2, when the dns.recursive.enabled setting is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via spoofed DNS queries.

Weakness: CWE-19

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4769?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Eucalyptus Eucalyptus.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4769?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-4769 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-4769 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4769 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2013-4767 Unspecified vulnerability in Eucalyptus before 3.3.2 has unknown impact and attack vectors. Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-8520 Missing authorization in Helion Eucalyptus High 8.8
• CVE-2016-8528 Privilege escalation in Helion Eucalyptus High 8.8
• CVE-2015-6861 Auth bypass in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2012-3240 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-j2jq-8x2f-vjwc.