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CVE-2015-5162

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5162 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova. A flaw in the image parser allows attackers to exhaust system resources (memory and disk) by submitting a specially crafted disk image, due to improper limiting of qemu-img calls. This vulnerability carries a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and no user interaction, leading to high availability impact. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:cinder:7.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:cinder:8.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:cinder:8.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 11.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:11.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0306 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (18)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: cinderFixed in: 7.0.2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: cinderFixed in: 9.0.0
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: glanceFixed in: 14.0.0
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: novaFixed in: 12.0.4
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-cinder-0:2014.1.5-9.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-cinder-0:2014.1.5-9.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-cinder-0:2014.2.4-11.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-cinder-0:2015.1.3-12.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-glance-0:2015.1.2-3.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: python-oslo-concurrency-0:1.8.2-2.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)Fixed in: openstack-cinder-1:7.0.3-1.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)Fixed in: openstack-glance-1:11.0.1-6.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)Fixed in: openstack-nova-1:12.0.5-9.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)Fixed in: openstack-cinder-1:8.1.1-4.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)Fixed in: openstack-glance-1:12.0.0-2.el7ost
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)Fixed in: openstack-nova
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)Fixed in: openstack-nova

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-g2j5-7vgx-6xrxhigh

OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova contain Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-5162Moderate

openstack-nova/glance/cinder: Malicious image may exhaust resources

Jun 29, 2015

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2923.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2991.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0153.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0156.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0165.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0282.html
launchpad.net / bugs/1449062
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/8
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/76849