CVE-2016-0737: Openstack Swift

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openstack Swift: up to and including 2.3.0

Published 2016-01-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.