CVE-2015-5295 Denial of service in n/a
Remote authenticated users can cause denial of service via memory consumption or read local files in OpenStack Heat.
- 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-2015-5295?
CVE-2015-5295 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 20 Jan 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The template-validate command in OpenStack Orchestration API (Heat) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 5.0.x before 5.0.1 (liberty) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or determine the existence of local files via the resource type in a template, as demonstrated by file:///dev/zero.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5295?
It affects 4 products.
Linux distribution packages (24)
openstack-heat Red Hat:openstack:5::el6 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost |
openstack-heat-api Red Hat:openstack:5::el6 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost |
openstack-heat-api-cfn Red Hat:openstack:5::el6 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost |
openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch Red Hat:openstack:5::el6 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost |
openstack-heat-common Red Hat:openstack:5::el6 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost |
openstack-heat-engine Red Hat:openstack:5::el6 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost |
openstack-heat Red Hat:openstack:5::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost |
openstack-heat-api Red Hat:openstack:5::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost |
openstack-heat-api-cfn Red Hat:openstack:5::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost |
openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch Red Hat:openstack:5::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost |
openstack-heat-common Red Hat:openstack:5::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost |
openstack-heat-engine Red Hat:openstack:5::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost |
openstack-heat Red Hat:openstack:6::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost |
openstack-heat-api Red Hat:openstack:6::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost |
openstack-heat-api-cfn Red Hat:openstack:6::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost |
openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch Red Hat:openstack:6::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost |
openstack-heat-common Red Hat:openstack:6::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost |
openstack-heat-engine Red Hat:openstack:6::el7 | All versions | 0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost |
openstack-heat Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost |
openstack-heat-api Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost |
openstack-heat-api-cfn Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost |
openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost |
openstack-heat-common Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost |
openstack-heat-engine Red Hat:openstack:7::el7 | All versions | 0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost |
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Openstack Orchestration Api, Oracle Solaris, Redhat Openstack.
How do I fix CVE-2015-5295?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2015-5295 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5295 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5295, GHSA-2w55-prvj-mgc2, RHSA-2016:0266, RHSA-2016:0440, RHSA-2016:0441, RHSA-2016:0442.