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CVE-2015-5163

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5163 describes a vulnerability in OpenStack Image Service (Glance) 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (Kilo) that allows authenticated attackers to read arbitrary files. This medium-complexity vulnerability, affecting the V2 API's import task action, could lead to information disclosure via a crafted qcow2 image backing file. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2015.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:2015.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2015.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:glance:2015.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.5LOW

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 1,637 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, 0.0 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 (2)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: glanceFixed in: 2015.1.2
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-glance-0:2015.1.0-6.el7ost.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-q73f-vjc2-3gqfhigh

OpenStack Image Service (Glance) allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary file

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-5163Important

openstack-glance: Glance v2 API host file disclosure through qcow2 backing file

Aug 13, 2015

References

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