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CVE-2014-9684 json

OpenStack Glance Denial of service by creating a large number of images

published 2015-02-24 11 y ago modified 2026-07-02 4 mo ago also GHSA-h737-q6g6-8wr6 , PYSEC-2015-37 , EUVD-2015-0034

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) 2014.2 through 2014.2.2 does not properly remove images, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating a large number of images using the task v2 API and then deleting them before the uploads finish, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1881.

Patch / fix

  • pypi glance 11.0.0a0
  • openstack-glance openstack 6 2014.2.3-1.el7ost
  • python-glance openstack 6 2014.2.3-1.el7ost
  • python-glance-store openstack 6 0.1.10-3.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0938

  • python-oslo.utils OpenStack Cloud 5 1.4.0-14.2
  • python-six OpenStack Cloud 5 1.9.0-9.2
  • openstack-heat OpenStack Cloud 5 2014.2.4.dev13-9.6
  • openstack-suse OpenStack Cloud 5 2014.2-9.2
  • python-oslotest OpenStack Cloud 5 1.2.0-2.5
  • openstack-cinder OpenStack Cloud 5 2014.2.4.dev19-9.7
  • openstack-glance OpenStack Cloud 5 2014.2.4.dev5-9.5
  • openstack-sahara OpenStack Cloud 5 2014.2.4.dev3-9.5

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:1515-1

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-2014-9684 updated cvss 2.3

openstack-glance: potential resource exhaustion and denial of service using images manipulation API

  • 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 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 python-glance 2014.2.3-1.el7ost, openstack-glance 2014.2.3-1.el7ost, python-glance-store 0.1.10-3.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0938
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) openstack-glance Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 openstack-glance
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

2.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1371118 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
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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