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CVE-2014-9623 json

OpenStack Glance Bypass the storage quota and Denial of service

published 2015-01-23 11 y ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-j4mh-9wq6-8rg6 , PYSEC-2026-813 , EUVD-2022-4275

cvss
4.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenStack Glance 2014.2.x through 2014.2.1, 2014.1.3, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to bypass the storage quota and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an image in the saving state.

Patch / fix

  • pypi glance 11.0.0a0
  • glance Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2014.1.3-12

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9623

  • openstack-glance openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el7ost
  • python-glance openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el7ost
  • openstack-glance openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el6ost
  • python-glance openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el6ost
  • openstack-glance openstack 6 2014.2.2-1.el7ost
  • python-glance openstack 6 2014.2.2-1.el7ost
  • python-glanceclient openstack 6 1:0.14.2-2.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0837RHSA-2015:0838RHSA-2015:0644

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-9623 updated cvss 2.1

openstack-glance: user storage quota bypass

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 openstack-glance
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) python-glance, openstack-glance, python-glance-tests Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 python3-glance, openstack-glance Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 python3-glance, openstack-glance
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 openstack-glance
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 python-glance 2014.1.4-1.el6ost, openstack-glance 2014.1.4-1.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0838
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 python-glance 2014.1.4-1.el7ost, openstack-glance 2014.1.4-1.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0837
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 python-glance 2014.2.2-1.el7ost, openstack-glance 2014.2.2-1.el7ost, python-glanceclient 0.14.2-2.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0644

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1398830 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi glance
<11.0.0a0
11.0.0a0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.