PT-2015-5483

CVE-2015-1881

Published

2015-02-24

Updated

2022-05-17

Description by

CVSS 4.0

8.7

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) versions 2014.2 through 2014.2.2

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, specifically disk consumption, by creating and then deleting a large number of images using the task v2 API.

Recommendations For versions 2014.2 through 2014.2.2, consider restricting access to the task v2 API to prevent excessive image creation and deletion. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Related identifiers

CVE-2015-1881

GHSA-4JP4-3C62-R8JV