CVE-2014-9493

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The V2 API in OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) before 2014.2.2 and 2014.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to read or delete arbitrary files via a full pathname in a file: URL in the image location property.

Affected products

OpenStack Image Registry And Delivery Service (Glance): from 2014.1 before 2014.1.4; from 2014.2 before 2014.2.2 — fixed in 2014.1.4, 2014.2.2
OpenStack: 4.0, 5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Image Registry And Delivery Service (Glance) 2014.1.4, 2014.2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000317.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0246.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71688
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1400966
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2014-041.html
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000317.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0246.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71688
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1400966
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2014-041.html

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