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CVE-2015-3241

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-3241 affects OpenStack Compute (nova) versions 2015.1 through 2015.1.1, and 2014.2.3 and earlier. This vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to trigger a denial of service by resizing and then deleting an instance, as the migration process fails to stop. With a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium), this flaw has a network attack vector and low complexity, leading to high availability impact through resource consumption. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2014.2, <= 2014.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2015.1.0, <= 2015.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0345 is in the 96th 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 (6)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: novaFixed in: 112.0.0.0b3
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-nova-0:2014.2.3-31.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-0:2015.1.0-18.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-0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
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Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-3vx7-xff6-h2vxmedium

OpenStack Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-3241Moderate

openstack-nova: Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted

Jun 15, 2015

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1723.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1898.html
Third Party Advisory
github.com / openstack/ossa/blob/482576204dec96f580817b119e3166d71c757731/ossa/OSSA-2015-015.yaml
Third Party Advisory
launchpad.net / bugs/1387543
Third Party Advisory
security.openstack.org / ossa/OSSA-2015-015.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/75372
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry