It was discovered that OpenStack Swift incorrectly handled truncated aws-chunked PUT request bodies in its s3api middleware. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenStack Swift to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service.
USN-8821-1: OpenStack Swift vulnerability
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