CVE-2015-5286

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% 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-264

Description

OpenStack Image Service (Glance) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) allows remote authenticated users to bypass the storage quota and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting images that are being uploaded using a token that expires during the process. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-9623.

Affected products

OpenStack Image Registry And Delivery Service (Glance): through 2014.2.3; 2015.1.0, 2015.1.1

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1897.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76943
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1498163
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-020.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1897.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76943
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1498163
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-020.html

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