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CVE-2013-6491

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6491 describes a vulnerability in the python-qpid client of OpenStack Oslo before version 2013.2, where SSL enforcement fails even when qpid_protocol is set to ssl, affecting OpenStack and Red Hat OpenStack products. This medium-complexity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) allows remote attackers to passively obtain sensitive information by sniffing network traffic, as confidentiality is compromised. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:oslo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0188 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-cinder-0:2013.1.5-2.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-glance-0:2013.1.5-1.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-quantum-0:2013.1.5-1.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev-2:0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2013.1.4-4.el6ost
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-6491Moderate

nova: qpid SSL configuration

Mar 22, 2013

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0112.html
bugs.launchpad.net / oslo/+bug/1158807
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2247-1