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CVE-2015-1856 json

OpenStack Swift Unauthorized delete of versioned Swift object

published 2015-04-17 11 y ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-cc77-5vw4-7pwg , PYSEC-2026-931 , EUVD-2022-3554

cvss
5.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.0, when allow_version is configured, allows remote authenticated users to delete the latest version of an object by leveraging listing access to the x-versions-location container.

Patch / fix

  • pypi swift 2.3.0
  • swift Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.2.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1856

  • swift Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.13.1-0ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1856

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • openstack-swift openstack 6 2.2.0-4.el7ost
  • openstack-swift-proxy openstack 6 2.2.0-4.el7ost
  • openstack-swift-object openstack 6 2.2.0-4.el7ost
  • openstack-swift-account openstack 6 2.2.0-4.el7ost
  • openstack-swift-container openstack 6 2.2.0-4.el7ost
  • vdsm storage 3.1 4.16.20-1.3.el7rhgs
  • gdeploy storage 3.1 1.0-12.el7rhgs
  • gstatus storage 3.1 0.65-1.el7rhgs

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1681RHSA-2015:1846RHSA-2015:1845RHSA-2015:1684

  • openstack-swift OpenStack Cloud 5 2.1.0-11.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:1846-1

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-2015-1856 updated cvss 3.5

Swift: unauthorized deletion of versioned Swift object

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 openstack-swift
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 openstack-swift 1.13.1-6.el6ost, openstack-swift-proxy 1.13.1-6.el6ost, openstack-swift-object 1.13.1-6.el6ost, openstack-swift-account 1.13.1-6.el6ost, openstack-swift-container 1.13.1-6.el6ost Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 openstack-swift 1.13.1-5.el7ost, openstack-swift-proxy 1.13.1-5.el7ost, openstack-swift-object 1.13.1-5.el7ost, openstack-swift-account 1.13.1-5.el7ost, openstack-swift-container 1.13.1-5.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1684
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 openstack-swift 2.2.0-4.el7ost, openstack-swift-proxy 2.2.0-4.el7ost, openstack-swift-object 2.2.0-4.el7ost, openstack-swift-account 2.2.0-4.el7ost, openstack-swift-container 2.2.0-4.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1681
  • Red Hat Gluster Storage Nagios 3.1 on RHEL-6 nagios-server-addons 0.2.2-1.el6rhs, gluster-nagios-common 0.2.2-1.el6rhs
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1845
  • Red Hat Gluster Storage Nagios 3.1 on RHEL-7 nagios-server-addons 0.2.2-1.el7rhgs, gluster-nagios-common 0.2.2-1.el7rhgs
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1846
  • Red Hat Gluster Storage NFS 3.1 on RHEL-6 nfs-ganesha 2.2.0-9.el6rhs, nfs-ganesha-gluster 2.2.0-9.el6rhs
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1845
  • Red Hat Gluster Storage NFS 3.1 on RHEL-7 nfs-ganesha 2.2.0-9.el7rhgs, nfs-ganesha-gluster 2.2.0-9.el7rhgs
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1846
  • Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-6 gdeploy 1.0-12.el6rhs, gstatus 0.65-1.el6rhs, vdsm 4.16.20-1.3.el6rhs, glusterfs 3.7.1-16.el6rhs, swiftonfile 1.13.1-5.el6rhs, vdsm-cli 4.16.20-1.3.el6rhs, +31 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1845
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  • Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-7 gdeploy 1.0-12.el7rhgs, gstatus 0.65-1.el7rhgs, vdsm 4.16.20-1.3.el7rhgs, glusterfs 3.7.1-16.el7rhgs, swiftonfile 1.13.1-5.el7rhgs, vdsm-cli 4.16.20-1.3.el7rhgs, +31 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1846
  • Red Hat Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 glusterfs 3.7.1-16.el6, glusterfs-api 3.7.1-16.el6, glusterfs-cli 3.7.1-16.el6, glusterfs-fuse 3.7.1-16.el6, glusterfs-libs 3.7.1-16.el6, glusterfs-rdma 3.7.1-16.el6, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1845
  • Red Hat Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 glusterfs 3.7.1-16.el7, glusterfs-api 3.7.1-16.el7, glusterfs-cli 3.7.1-16.el7, glusterfs-fuse 3.7.1-16.el7, glusterfs-libs 3.7.1-16.el7, glusterfs-rdma 3.7.1-16.el7, +2 more Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts glusterfs 3.7.1-16.el7, glusterfs-cli 3.7.1-16.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1846

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Exploit prediction

4.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi swift
<2.3.0
2.3.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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