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.
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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) | |
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Redhat openstack |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:18.0 | |
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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
Updated: 2026-10-13T16:36:27.588Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-12T19:16:39.997
Modified: 2026-10-15T16:33:26.290
Link: CVE-2026-83536