🛡️ CVE-2013-0270 — keystone

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-119 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenStack Keystone Denial of Service vulnerability via a large HTTP request

OpenStack Keystone Grizzly before 2013.1, Folsom, and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large HTTP request, as demonstrated by a long tenant_name when requesting a token.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2013-0270 is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

CVE-2013-0270 is recorded against 1 package.

  • keystone (fixed in 8.0.0a0)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 May 2022 and last revised on 6 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
bugs.launchpad.net (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
launchpad.net (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-119
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-05
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
keystone — 8.0.0a0

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