CVE-2013-1840 (GCVE-0-2013-1840)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-03-22 21:00
Modified
2026-10-30 18:03
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EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-201 - Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
Summary
A flaw was found in OpenStack Glance. Remote authenticated users can exploit this vulnerability by requesting a cached image when the single-tenant Swift or S3 store is in use. This action causes the system to report the location field, which can lead to the disclosure of the operator's backend credentials.
References
Impacted products
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| Red Hat | OpenStack Folsom for RHEL 6 |
Unaffected: 0:2012.2.3-8.el6ost < * cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:2::el6 |
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