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CVE-2016-0738

7.5 highEPSS 3.9%

High (7.5) in openstack swift. EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in swift 2.3.1, 2.5.1.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-399
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7pPyPIswift<2.3.12.3.1
GHSA-fxwr-2vxm-cg7pPyPIswift>=2.4.0 <2.5.12.5.1
PYSEC-2026-932PyPIswift<2.3.1
>=2.4.0 <2.5.1		2.3.1, 2.5.1

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