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OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of serviceGHSA-972c-cfv8-2hq8

HIGH

GHSA-972c-cfv8-2hq8 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) CWE-399 vulnerability in swift. A fix is available for swift — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Also known asCVE-2016-0737PYSEC-2026-929
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 3, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
3.8%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs90th percentile — riskier than 90% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
3.19%4.26%5.33%6.40%5.8%3.8%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🐍swift

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Description

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client 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.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐍PyPIswiftall versions2.4.0pip install --upgrade 'swift==2.4.0'

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
swiftopenstack
≤ 2.3.0
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for swift, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update swift to 2.4.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-972c-cfv8-2hq8 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Cap what an attacker can consume: apply request size, rate and timeout limits in front of the affected component, and run it with memory and CPU limits so exhaustion degrades one worker rather than the whole service.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatModerate
ProductFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-8.el6ostRHSA-2016:0126
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-8.el7ostRHSA-2016:0127
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7openstack-swift-0:2.2.0-6.el7ostRHSA-2016:0128
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7openstack-swift-0:2.3.0-3.el7ostRHSA-2016:0155
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-8.el6ostRHSA-2016:0329
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-8.el7ostRHSA-2016:0328

Frequently Asked Questions

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.4.0 does not properly close client 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.
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