A flaw was found in openstack-network-exporter. The HTTP server within the component is configured without essential timeout settings, such as ReadHeaderTimeout. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to initiate multiple slow HTTP header connections. By trickling header bytes, the attacker can exhaust server resources, specifically file descriptors, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) that prevents legitimate Prometheus metric scraping and alerting.
History

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description A flaw was found in openstack-network-exporter. The HTTP server within the component is configured without essential timeout settings, such as ReadHeaderTimeout. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to initiate multiple slow HTTP header connections. By trickling header bytes, the attacker can exhaust server resources, specifically file descriptors, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) that prevents legitimate Prometheus metric scraping and alerting.
Title Openstack-network-exporter: http.server has no readheadertimeout / readtimeout (slowloris)
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat openstack
Weaknesses CWE-400
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:18.0
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat openstack
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2026-10-12T18:50:23.855Z

Updated: 2026-10-13T16:36:36.948Z

Reserved: 2026-08-31T16:53:08.479Z

Link: CVE-2026-83536

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-13T16:36:27.588Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-12T19:16:39.997

Modified: 2026-10-15T16:33:26.290

Link: CVE-2026-83536

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-10-12T18:28:52Z

Links: CVE-2026-83536 - Bugzilla