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CVE-2014-9684

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9684 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenStack Glance versions 2014.2 through 2014.2.2. Authenticated attackers can exhaust disk space by initiating numerous image uploads via the task v2 API and then deleting them before completion, preventing proper cleanup. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity, with an easily exploitable network attack requiring authentication, leading to partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2014.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):2014.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2014.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):2014.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2014.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):2014.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0198 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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 (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: glanceFixed in: 11.0.0a0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-glance-0:2014.2.3-1.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: python-glance-store-0:0.1.10-3.el7ost
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-h737-q6g6-8wr6high

OpenStack Glance Denial of service by creating a large number of images

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-9684Moderate

openstack-glance: potential resource exhaustion and denial of service using images manipulation API

Feb 19, 2015

References

lists.openstack.org / pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-February/000336.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0938.html
bugs.launchpad.net / glance/+bug/1371118
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/72692