{"id":"GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7p","summary":"OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service","details":"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.","aliases":["CVE-2016-0738","PYSEC-2026-932"],"modified":"2026-07-07T11:56:32.478738765Z","published":"2022-05-17T03:29:51Z","database_specific":{"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2023-02-08T17:59:29Z","nvd_published_at":"2016-01-29T20:59:00Z","cwe_ids":[]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0738"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200228001102/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/openstack/swift"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298905"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0738"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0329"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0328"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0155"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0128"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0127"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0126"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"swift","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/swift"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.3.1"}]}],"versions":["1.0.2"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7p/GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7p.json"}},{"package":{"name":"swift","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/swift"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"2.4.0"},{"fixed":"2.5.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7p/GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7p.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}