CVE-2013-6396: Openstack Swift

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The OpenStack Python client library for Swift (python-swiftclient) 1.0 through 1.9.0 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Affected products

• Openstack Swift: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.3.0 only; …

Published 2014-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.