Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-4179

Title: Openstack Havana Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-4179.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Sep 16, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.70%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-4179: The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-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.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 2

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-4179 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 16, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.