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CVE-2015-5295

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The template-validate command in OpenStack Orchestration API (Heat) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 5.0.x before 5.0.1 (liberty) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or determine the existence of local files via the resource type in a template, as demonstrated by file:///dev/zero.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
• OpenStack Orchestration Api: from 5.0.0 before 5.0.1; from 2015.1.0 before 2015.1.3 — fixed in 2015.1.3, 5.0.1
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3
• OpenStack: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Orchestration Api 2015.1.3, 5.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176700.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0266.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81438
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1496277
• https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-003.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176700.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0266.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81438
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1496277
• https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-003.html

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