{"id":"CVE-2013-4202","aliases":["GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q","PYSEC-2026-790"],"title":"OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities ","summary":"OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities ","severity":"medium","vendor":"cinder","product":"cinder","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["cinder < 7.0.0a0"],"patched":["cinder 7.0.0a0"],"published":"2022-05-14","updated":"2026-07-07","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q","references":[{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4202"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/cinder"},{"url":"http://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/2023eecc4b1a35daf42a64fa01967ed12c7d017b"},{"url":"http://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/4ad95dba4fccbbc0df923dea0dc9e5c3ac9f4cc2"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1198.html"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1"}],"tags":["osv","pip"],"epss":0.02626,"epssPercentile":0.84756,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-08T18:25:51.208Z","slug":"CVE-2013-4202","body":"## Overview\n\nThe (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.\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `cinder < 7.0.0a0`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `cinder 7.0.0a0`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":28,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":27.5,"likelihood":0.5,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}