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CVE-2014-5356

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5356 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenStack Glance (Image Registry and Delivery Service) versions prior to 2013.2.4, 2014.1.3, and Juno-3, when using the V2 API. Authenticated users can bypass the image_size_cap configuration, allowing them to upload excessively large images and consume disk space, leading to a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity requiring authentication, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2013.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):2013.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):2013.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):2013.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2014.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):2014.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0213 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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: glanceFixed in: 11.0.0a0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-glance-0:2013.2.4-1.el6ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-glance-0:2014.1.2-5.el6ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-glance-0:2014.1.2-3.el7ost
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-479j-jf2p-38pgmedium

OpenStack Glance improper validation of the image_size_cap configuration option

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-5356Moderate

openstack-glance: Glance store disk space exhaustion

May 2, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1337.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1338.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1685.html
bugs.launchpad.net / glance/+bug/1315321
secunia.com / advisories/60743
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/08/21/6
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2322-1