OpenStack Security Advisory: 2013-016 CVE: CVE-2013-2161 Date: June 13, 2013 Title: Unchecked user input in Swift XML responses Reporter: Alex Gaynor (Rackspace) Products: Swift Affects: All versions Description: Alex Gaynor from Rackspace reported a vulnerability in XML handling within Swift account servers. Account strings were unescaped in XML listings, and an attacker could potentially generate unparsable or arbitrary XML responses which may be used to leverage other vulnerabilities in the calling software. Havana (development branch) fix: https://review.openstack.org/32905 Grizzly fix: https://review.openstack.org/32909 Folsom fix: https://review.openstack.org/32911 Notes: This fix will be included in the next release. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2161 https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1183884 -- Jeremy Stanley (fungi) OpenStack Vulnerability Management Team