CVE-2016-0738
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,…
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Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 44 days later
· 44 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.0% · top 9.5% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (9)
- RHSA-2016:0329 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 81432 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0128 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-2256c80a94 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0155 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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