Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-4261

Title: Openstack Grizzly Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-4261.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Oct 29, 2013
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 3.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.74%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-4261: OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occur during messaging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool consumption), as demonstrated using multiple requests that send long strings to an instance console and retrieving the console log.

Impacted Vendors

O
openstack 3
R
redhat 1
E
eclipse 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/595 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1215091 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999164 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999271 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1199.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/595 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1215091 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999164 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999271
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
3.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-4261 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.