Comment 61 for bug 1100282
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| Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote Re: DoS through XML entity expansion | #61 |
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Proposed description failed to credit Stuart Stent, see new version:
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Title: Information leak and Denial of Service using XML entities
Reporter: Jonathan Murray (NCC Group), Joshua Harlow (Yahoo!), Stuart Stent
Products: Keystone, Nova, Cinder
Affects: All versions
Description:
Jonathan Murray from NCC Group, Joshua Harlow from Yahoo! and Stuart Stent independently reported a vulnerability in the parsing of XML requests in Keystone, Nova and Cinder. By using entities in XML requests, an unauthenticated attacker may consume excessive resources on the Keystone, Nova or Cinder API servers, resulting in a denial of service and potentially a crash. Authenticated attackers may also leverage XML entities to read the content of a local file on the Keystone API server. This only affects servers with XML support enabled.
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