CVE-2014-5356

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) before 2013.2.4, 2014.x before 2014.1.3, and Juno before Juno-3, when using the V2 API, does not properly enforce the image_size_cap configuration option, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by uploading a large image.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
OpenStack Image Registry And Delivery Service (Glance): through 2013.2.3; 2013.2, 2013.2.1, 2013.2.2, 2014.1, 2014.1.1, 2014.1.2 (+2)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1337.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1338.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1685.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60743
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/6
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2322-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1315321
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1337.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1338.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1685.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60743
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/6

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