Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)

CVE-2016-0737 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client 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.

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