CVE-2015-3280 OpenStack Compute (nova) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service

What is CVE-2015-3280?

CVE-2015-3280 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Oct 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenStack Compute (nova) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) does not properly delete instances from compute nodes, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting instances while in the resize state.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-3280?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including nova. It affects 1 product.

Products include Openstack Nova.

How do I fix CVE-2015-3280?

Upgrade nova to a fixed version for your release line: 2014.2.4 or 2015.1.2.

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-2015-3280 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3280 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2017-7214 OpenStack Nova logs sensitive context from notification exceptions Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-17051 OpenStack Nova DoS by rebuilding the same instance with a new image multiple times High 8.6
• CVE-2020-17376 OpenStack Nova Live migration fails to update persistent domain XML High 8.3
• CVE-2017-18191 OpenStack Nova Denial of service attack on the compute host High 7.5
• CVE-2015-3241 OpenStack Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted Medium 6.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3280, GHSA-mfmj-gwg3-vhw7, PYSEC-2026-877, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3280.