CVE-2015-3280

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

OpenStack Compute (nova) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) does not properly delete instances from compute nodes, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting instances while in the resize state.

Affected products

OpenStack Nova: from 2014.2 before 2014.2.4; from 2015.1.0 before 2015.1.2 — fixed in 2014.2.4, 2015.1.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Nova 2014.2.4, 2015.1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1898.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76553
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1392527
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-017.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1898.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76553
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1392527
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-017.html

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