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CVE-2013-4155

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4155 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenStack Swift versions before 1.9.1 (Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana). An authenticated user can exploit this by sending a DELETE request with an outdated timestamp, leading to excessive tombstone consumption and a slowdown of the Swift cluster. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity with network access, low attack complexity, requiring authentication, and resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:grizzly:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:havana:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:swift:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:swift:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0166 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 21,939 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: swiftFixed in: 1.9.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-swift-0:1.8.0-7.el6ost
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: openstack-swift

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-wxx2-gqvv-34hxmedium

OpenStack Swift allows authenticated users to cause a denial of service

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2013-4155Moderate

OpenStack: Swift Denial of Service using superfluous object tombstones

Aug 7, 2013

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1197.html
bugs.launchpad.net / swift/+bug/1196932
review.openstack.org
review.openstack.org
review.openstack.org
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2737
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/08/07/6
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2001-1