OpenStack: Swift Denial of Service using superfluous object tombstones
Published Aug 20, 2013
4.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.68%
Description
OpenStack Swift before 1.9.1 in Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana allows authenticated users to cause a denial of service ("superfluous" tombstone consumption and Swift cluster slowdown) via a DELETE request with a timestamp that is older than expected.
Affected products
No data.
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- ≤ 1.9.0
- 1.0.0
- 1.0.1
- 1.0.2
- 1.1.0
- 1.1.0
- 1.1.0
- 1.2.0
- 1.2.0
- 1.2.0
- 1.3.0
- 1.3.0
- 1.3.0
- 1.4.0
- 1.4.1
- 1.4.2
- 1.4.3
- 1.4.4
- 1.4.5
- 1.4.6
- 1.4.7
- 1.4.8
- 1.5.0
- 1.6.0
- 1.7.0
- 1.7.2
- 1.7.4
- 1.7.5
- 1.7.6
- 1.8.0
- 1.8.0
- 1.8.0
No data.
OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6
openstack-swift-0:1.8.0-7.el6ost
Fixed · RHSA-2013:1197
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4
openstack-swift
Affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6 | openstack-swift-0:1.8.0-7.el6ost | Fixed | RHSA-2013:1197 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 | openstack-swift | Affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (15 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.68% (0.01675) | 76.00th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.66% (0.01661) | 73.54th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 0.88% (0.00884) | 73.30th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 2.06% (0.02064) | 73.22th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.04% (0.01039) | 75.89th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.26% (0.00259) | 66.14th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.27% (0.00273) | 67.10th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 2, 2023 | 0.27% (0.00273) | 63.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.31% (0.00310) | 65.27th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.10% (0.01104) | 54.09th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 13, 2023 | 1.10% (0.01104) | 53.53th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2023 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 67.60th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Sep 17, 2022 | 1.10% (0.01104) | 52.45th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.10% (0.01104) | 50.41th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.10% (0.01104) | 28.85th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (15)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1197.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2737 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/07/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2001-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4155 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1196932 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991626 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wxx2-gqvv-34hx Advisory
- https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/1f4ec235cdfd8c868f2d6458532f9dc32c00b8ca
- https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/6b9806e0e8cbec60c0a3ece0bd516e0502827515
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4155
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40643 x_refsource_MISC
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40645 x_refsource_MISC
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/40646 x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4155
Change history (0)
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