CVE-2015-3241 OpenStack Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted
Remote authenticated users can cause denial of service by resizing and deleting an instance, as the migration process continues consuming resources.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-3241?
CVE-2015-3241 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Sep 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
OpenStack Compute (nova) 2015.1 through 2015.1.1, 2014.2.3, and earlier does not stop the migration process when the instance is deleted, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk, network, and other resource consumption) by resizing and then deleting an instance.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-3241?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including nova. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
nova PyPI | All versions | 112.0.0.0b3 |
nova PyPI | All versions | 112.0.0.0b3 |
nova PyPI | All versions | 12.0.0.0b3 |
Linux distribution packages (16)
openstack-nova Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-api Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-cells Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-cert Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-common Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-compute Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-conductor Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-console Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-doc Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-network Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-novncproxy Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-objectstore Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-scheduler Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-serialproxy Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
python-nova Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost |
Products include Openstack Nova.
How do I fix CVE-2015-3241?
Upgrade nova to a fixed version for your release line: 112.0.0.0b3 or 12.0.0.0b3.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2015-3241 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3241 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2017-7214 OpenStack Nova logs sensitive context from notification exceptions
- CVE-2017-17051 OpenStack Nova DoS by rebuilding the same instance with a new image multiple times
- CVE-2020-17376 OpenStack Nova Live migration fails to update persistent domain XML
- CVE-2017-18191 OpenStack Nova Denial of service attack on the compute host
- CVE-2015-3280 OpenStack Compute (nova) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3241, GHSA-3vx7-xff6-h2vx, PYSEC-2026-861, RHSA-2015:1723, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3241.