PYSEC-2026-790
Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-06 08:03 - Updated: 2026-07-06 08:03The (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.
| Name | purl | cinder | pkg:pypi/cinder |
|---|
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "PyPI",
"name": "cinder",
"purl": "pkg:pypi/cinder"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "7.0.0a0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2013-4202",
"GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q"
],
"details": "The (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.",
"id": "PYSEC-2026-790",
"modified": "2026-07-06T08:03:22.754453Z",
"published": "2026-07-06T08:03:22.754453Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4202"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ossa/+bug/1190229"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/openstack/cinder"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/2023eecc4b1a35daf42a64fa01967ed12c7d017b"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/4ad95dba4fccbbc0df923dea0dc9e5c3ac9f4cc2"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1198.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2005-1"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://pypi.org/project/cinder"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q"
}
],
"summary": "OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities "
}
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