CVE-2014-9684

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) 2014.2 through 2014.2.2 does not properly remove images, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating a large number of images using the task v2 API and then deleting them before the uploads finish, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1881.

Affected products

OpenStack Image Registry And Delivery Service (Glance): 2014.2, 2014.2.1, 2014.2.2

References

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-February/000336.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0938.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72692
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1371118
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-February/000336.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0938.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72692
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1371118

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