CVE-2015-5162

HIGH7.5EPSS 3.6%

OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova contain Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance before 11.0.1 and 12.0.0; and Nova before 12.0.4 and 13.0.0 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) via a crafted disk image.

Affected packages (6)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (16)