CVE-2015-5162 OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova contain Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
High 7.5
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2015-5162 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2015-5162 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Oct 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5162 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected packages and fixed versions:
- cinder (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 7.0.2, 9.0.0
- cinder (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 7.0.2
- cinder (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 7.0.2
- cinder (PyPI): affected from 8.0.0; fixed in 9.0.0
- cinder (PyPI): affected from 8.0.0; fixed in 9.0.0
- glance (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 14.0.0
- glance (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 14.0.0
- glance (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 14.0.0
- nova (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 12.0.4
- nova (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 12.0.4
- nova (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 12.0.4
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5162/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5162/index.md)
Attackers can cause denial of service via memory and disk consumption by submitting crafted disk images to OpenStack image parsers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-5162?
CVE-2015-5162 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Oct 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance before 11.0.1 and 12.0.0; and Nova before 12.0.4 and 13.0.0 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) via a crafted disk image.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5162?
11 open source packages ship an affected version, including cinder, glance and nova. It affects 3 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
cinder PyPI | All versions | 7.0.2, 9.0.0 |
cinder PyPI | All versions | 7.0.2 |
cinder PyPI | All versions | 7.0.2 |
cinder PyPI | From 8.0.0 | 9.0.0 |
cinder PyPI | From 8.0.0 | 9.0.0 |
glance PyPI | All versions | 14.0.0 |
5 more packages
glance PyPI | All versions | 14.0.0 |
glance PyPI | All versions | 14.0.0 |
nova PyPI | All versions | 12.0.4 |
nova PyPI | All versions | 12.0.4 |
nova PyPI | All versions | 12.0.4 |
Linux distribution packages (29)
openstack-cinder Red Hat:openstack:5::el6 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-9.el6ost |
openstack-cinder-doc Red Hat:openstack:5::el6 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-9.el6ost |
python-cinder Red Hat:openstack:5::el6 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-9.el6ost |
openstack-cinder Red Hat:openstack:5::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-9.el7ost |
openstack-cinder-doc Red Hat:openstack:5::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-9.el7ost |
python-cinder Red Hat:openstack:5::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-9.el7ost |
openstack-cinder Red Hat:openstack:6::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.2.4-11.el7ost |
openstack-cinder-doc Red Hat:openstack:6::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.2.4-11.el7ost |
python-cinder Red Hat:openstack:6::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.2.4-11.el7ost |
openstack-cinder Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.3-12.el7ost |
openstack-cinder-doc Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.3-12.el7ost |
openstack-glance Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.2-3.el7ost |
openstack-glance-doc Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.2-3.el7ost |
openstack-nova Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-api Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-cells Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-cert Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-common Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-compute Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-conductor Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-console Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-doc Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-network Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-novncproxy Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-objectstore Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-scheduler Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-serialproxy Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.4-32.el7ost |
python-cinder Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.3-12.el7ost |
Products include Openstack Cinder, Openstack Glance, Openstack Nova.
How do I fix CVE-2015-5162?
Upgrade cinder to a fixed version for your release line: 7.0.2 or 9.0.0.
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-2015-5162 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5162 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2024-32498 OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova vulnerable to arbitrary file access
- CVE-2017-15139 Information disclosure in openstack-cinder
- CVE-2014-3641 OpenStack Cinder Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability
- CVE-2014-7231 OpenStack Oslo utility sensitive information exposure via log files
- CVE-2013-4183 OpenStack Cinder LVMVolumeDriver does not zero deleted snapshots
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5162, GHSA-g2j5-7vgx-6xrx, PYSEC-2026-2412, PYSEC-2026-2491, PYSEC-2026-871, RHSA-2016:2923 and 6 more.