Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova
CVE-2015-5162

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Openstack
Status
Nova
Glance
Cinder
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 October 2016

Summary

A vulnerability exists in the image parser of OpenStack's Cinder, Glance, and Nova products that inadequately restricts qemu-img calls. This flaw could enable malicious attackers to deploy crafted disk images, ultimately resulting in significant memory and disk resource exhaustion. The affected versions include specific releases of Cinder (7.0.2, 8.0.0, 8.1.1), Glance (prior to 11.0.1 and 12.0.0), and Nova (prior to 12.0.4 and 13.0.0), thereby posing a risk of denial of service attacks.

References

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1449062
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76849
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0153.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

EPSS Score

5% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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