Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-0737

Title: Openstack Swift Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-0737.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Jan 29, 2016

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.79%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-0737: OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (proxy-server resource consumption) via a series of interrupted requests to a Large Object URL.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

apple 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432 https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1466549 https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/2.4.0 https://review.openstack.org/#/c/217750/ https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432 https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1466549 https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/2.4.0 https://review.openstack.org/#/c/217750/ https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-0737 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 29, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.