CVE-2013-4428

Exp

OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) Folsom, Grizzly before 2013.1.4, and Havana before 2013.2, when the download_image policy is configured, does not properly restrict access to cached images, which allows remote authenticated users to read otherwise restricted images via an image UUID.

Published: 2013-10-26 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-4428 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.7/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.08%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.61% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2013-4428

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-4428

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.47% 3.08% +2.61%
2 2026-05-24 0.28% 0.47% +0.19%
3 2025-10-03 0.28%

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-4428

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.5 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
6.8 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-4428

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-4428

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2013-4428 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (glance), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4428
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4428
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-4428 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (glance), 6 status rows across 6 suites (lucid, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, upstream): released 3, not-affected 2, DNE 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4428

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-4428

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
openstack glance >= 2012.2, <= 2012.2.4 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack glance >= 2013.1, < 2013.1.4 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack glance 2013.2 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:2013.2:milestone1:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack glance 2013.2 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:2013.2:milestone2:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack glance 2013.2 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:2013.2:milestone3:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 13.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-4428

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