CVE-2016-0738

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CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

EPSS

4%p90

Published

Jan 29, 2016 (Jan 29, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: openstack
Products: swift
Weakness: CWE-399
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.9%)

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