Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)

CVE-2016-0738 · MEDIUM Severity

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

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.1 (Kilo), 2.4.x, and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 (Liberty) do not properly close server 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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