CVE-2013-4261: Openstack Folsom

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openstack Folsom: up to and including -
• Openstack Grizzly: up to and including -
• Red Hat Openstack: version 3.0 only

Published 2013-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.