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CVE-2016-0738
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-01-29T20:59:03.810 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:38:07.703

Summary

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server 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

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References

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