CVE-2015-3241

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

OpenStack Compute (nova) 2015.1 through 2015.1.1, 2014.2.3, and earlier does not stop the migration process when the instance is deleted, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk, network, and other resource consumption) by resizing and then deleting an instance.

Affected products

OpenStack Nova: from 2014.2 through 2014.2.3; from 2015.1.0 through 2015.1.1

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1723.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1898.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75372
https://github.com/openstack/ossa/blob/482576204dec96f580817b119e3166d71c757731/ossa/OSSA-2015-015.yaml
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1387543
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-015.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1723.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1898.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75372
https://github.com/openstack/ossa/blob/482576204dec96f580817b119e3166d71c757731/ossa/OSSA-2015-015.yaml
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1387543
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-015.html

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