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CVE-2015-5251 json

OpenStack Image Service (Glance) allows remote authenticated users to bypass access restrictions

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-q748-mcwg-xmqv , PYSEC-2026-816 , EUVD-2022-4907

cvss
5.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenStack Image Service (Glance) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) allow remote authenticated users to change the status of their images and bypass access restrictions via the HTTP x-image-meta-status header to images/*.

Patch / fix

  • pypi glance 2014.2.4, 2015.1.2
  • glance Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:11.0.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5251

  • glance Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5251

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-glance openstack 5 2014.1.5-3.el6ost
  • openstack-glance openstack 5 2014.1.5-3.el7ost
  • openstack-glance openstack 6 2014.2.3-3.el7ost
  • openstack-glance openstack 7 2015.1.1-3.el7ost
  • python-glance openstack 5 2014.1.5-3.el6ost
  • python-glance openstack 5 2014.1.5-3.el7ost
  • python-glance openstack 6 2014.2.3-3.el7ost
  • python-glance openstack 7 2015.1.1-3.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1897

  • openstack-glance OpenStack Cloud 5 2014.2.4.juno-14.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:0101-1

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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-2015-5251 updated cvss 6.0

openstack-glance allows illegal modification of image status

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 python-glance 2014.1.5-3.el6ost, openstack-glance 2014.1.5-3.el6ost Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 python-glance 2014.1.5-3.el7ost, openstack-glance 2014.1.5-3.el7ost Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 python-glance 2014.2.3-3.el7ost, openstack-glance 2014.2.3-3.el7ost Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 python-glance 2015.1.1-3.el7ost, openstack-glance 2015.1.1-3.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1897

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

2.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% 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 glance
>=2011.2, <2014.2.4
>=2015.1.0, <2015.1.2
2014.2.4
2015.1.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

References

Sources

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