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CVE-2015-1851

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1851 describes a critical vulnerability in OpenStack Cinder versions before 2014.1.5 (Icehouse), 2014.2.4 (Juno), and 2015.1.1 (Kilo), allowing remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files. This flaw is exploited by crafting a malicious qcow2 signature within an image uploaded via the "upload-to-image" command. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, requiring authentication but being network-exploitable with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
15.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2014.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:icehouse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2014.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:juno:2014.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2014.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:juno:2014.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2014.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:juno:2014.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0262 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: cinderFixed in: 7.0.0a0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-cinder-0:2014.1.4-1.1.el6ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-cinder-0:2014.1.4-1.1.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-cinder-0:2014.2.3-3.1.el7ost
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-9hcj-h2qc-689pmedium

OpenStack Cinder file disclosure in image convert

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-1851Important

openstack-cinder: Host file disclosure through qcow2 backing file

Jun 12, 2015

References

lists.openstack.org / pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-June/000367.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1206.html
bugs.launchpad.net / cinder/+bug/1415087
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3292
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/06/13/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/06/17/2
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/06/17/7
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2703-1