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)
- Debian/cinderfrom 0, < 2:8.0.0-1
- Debian/glancefrom 0, < 2:12.0.0-1
- Debian/novafrom 0, < 2:13.0.0-1
- PyPI/cinderfrom 0, < 7.0.2
- PyPI/glancefrom 0, < 14.0.0
- PyPI/novafrom 0, < 12.0.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (16)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5162
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5162
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2923.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2991.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0153.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0156.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0165.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0282.html
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5162
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268303
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/455b318ced717fb38dfe40014817d78fbc47dea5
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/69a9b659fd48aa3c1f84fc7bc9ae236b6803d31f
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/6bc37dcceca823998068167b49aec6def3112397
- WEBhttps://launchpad.net/bugs/1449062
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/8
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76849