CVE-2013-4179: Openstack Compute

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openstack Compute: version 2013.1.3 only
• Openstack Havana: up to and including havana-2; version havana-1 only

Published 2013-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.