CVE-2015-5162

Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
3.6%
top 12.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 7
Latest updateMay 14

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages9 packages

NVDopenstack/nova12.0.3+1
NVDopenstack/glance11.0.0+2
NVDopenstack/cinder7.0.2, 8.0.0, 8.1.0+2
PyPInova< 12.0.4
PyPIcinder8.0.09.0.0+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
OSV
OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova contain Uncontrolled Resource Consumption2022-05-14
GHSA
OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova contain Uncontrolled Resource Consumption2022-05-14
OSV
nova vulnerabilities2017-10-11
OSV
CVE-2015-5162: The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 72016-10-07
CVEList
CVE-2015-5162: The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 72016-10-07

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities2017-10-11
Red Hat
openstack-nova/glance/cinder: Malicious image may exhaust resources2015-06-29
Debian
CVE-2015-5162: cinder - The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance befor...2015

💬Community

8
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-10908 vdsm: calls to qemu-img are not protected by prlimit/ulimit2018-07-20
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5162 openstack-nova: openstack-nova/glance/cinder: Malicious image may exhaust resources [fedora-all]2016-10-07
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5162 openstack-nova: Malicious image causes OOM on the compute host [openstack-rdo]2016-10-07
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5162 openstack-cinder: openstack-nova: Malicious image causes OOM on the compute host [fedora-all]2016-10-07
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5162 openstack-cinder: openstack-nova: Malicious image causes OOM on the compute host [openstack-rdo]2016-10-07
CVE-2015-5162 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | The image parser in OpenStack Cinde | cvebase.io