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medium 5.3

CVE-2026-83536 json

Openstack-network-exporter: http.server has no readheadertimeout / readtimeout (slowloris)

published 2026-10-12 27 d ago modified 2026-10-15 25 d ago also EUVD-2026-97777

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-83536 updated cvss 5.3

openstack-network-exporter: http.Server has no ReadHeaderTimeout / ReadTimeout (Slowloris)

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 rhoso-operators/openstack-network-exporter-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
27 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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