CVE-2014-9623

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

OpenStack Glance 2014.2.x through 2014.2.1, 2014.1.3, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to bypass the storage quota and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an image in the saving state.

Affected products

OpenStack Image Registry And Delivery Service (Glance): through 2014.1.3; 2014.2, 2014.2-rc1, 2014.2-rc2, 2014.2-rc3
OpenStack: 5.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0644.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0837.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0838.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62165
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/18/4
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1383973
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1398830
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-003.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0644.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0837.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0838.html

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