{"id":"CVE-2016-0738","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-0738","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:22:12.853Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2016-01-29T20:59:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:38:08.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-399"],"affected":["openstack/swift"],"epss":{"score":0.03852,"percentile":0.90069,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.85%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176713.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0128.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0155.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0329.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81432","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-archive/+bug/1493303","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-004.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0738","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}