{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2021-09-08T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "openstack-neutron: Routes middleware memory leak for nonexistent controllers",
    "id" : "2003248",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2003248"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-770",
  "details" : [ "An issue was discovered in the routes middleware in OpenStack Neutron before 16.4.1, 17.x before 17.2.1, and 18.x before 18.1.1. By making API requests involving nonexistent controllers, an authenticated user may cause the API worker to consume increasing amounts of memory, resulting in API performance degradation or denial of service.", "A resource-allocation flaw was found in openstack-neutron. An authenticated attacker could make API requests involving nonexistent controllers causing the API worker to consume increasing amounts of memory. This flaw could be exploited to force API performance degradation or denial of service." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1",
    "release_date" : "2022-03-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:0990",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:16.1::el8",
    "package" : "openstack-neutron-1:15.2.1-1.20220112133420.el8ost"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2",
    "release_date" : "2022-03-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:0996",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:16.2::el8",
    "package" : "openstack-neutron-1:15.3.5-2.20220113150031.el8ost"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Integration Camel K 1",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "openstack-neutron",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:integration:1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "openstack-neutron",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "openstack-neutron",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:13"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40797\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40797\nhttps://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2021-006.html" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2021-40797",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}