SCA: security update for cinder (GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433482

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- The (1) backup (api/contrib/backups.py) and (2) volume transfer (contrib/volume_transfer.py) APIs in
OpenStack Cinder Grizzly 2013.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an
incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664. (CVE-2013-4202)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mfg4-9xf4-f45q

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433482

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4202

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4202

BID: 61693