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CVE-2013-4202

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4202 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenStack Cinder Grizzly 2013.1.3 and earlier, specifically impacting the backup and volume transfer APIs. This flaw, an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664, allows remote attackers to trigger resource consumption and crashes through an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity, 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
>= 2013.1, <= 2013.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:cinder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0260 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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: cinderFixed in: 7.0.0a0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-cinder-0:2013.1.3-2.el6ost
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: openstack-cinder

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45qmedium

OpenStack Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2013-4202Moderate

OpenStack: Cinder Denial of Service using XML entities

Aug 8, 2013

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1198.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net / ossa/+bug/1190229
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2005-1
Third Party Advisory