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CVE-2015-5286 json

OpenStack Image Service (Glance) allows remote authenticated users to bypass storage quota, cause denial of service

published 2015-10-26 11 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-gvjg-r9fv-7qx9 , PYSEC-2026-812 , EUVD-2022-4019

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenStack Image Service (Glance) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) allows remote authenticated users to bypass the storage quota and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting images that are being uploaded using a token that expires during the process. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-9623.

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-2015-5286

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

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5286

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

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-2015-5286 updated cvss 5.0

openstack-glance: Storage overrun by deleting images

  • 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

2.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi glance
<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-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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