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CVE-2015-5163

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The import task action in OpenStack Image Service (Glance) 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo), when using the V2 API, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted backing file for a qcow2 image.

Affected products

• OpenStack Glance: 2015.1.0, 2015.1.1

References

• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-August/000527.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1639.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76346
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1471912
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-August/000527.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1639.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76346
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1471912

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