A vulnerability was found in Openstack Glance.

published 2018-07-31 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9457

cvss: 4.3; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.3%; EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability was found in Openstack Glance. No limits are enforced within the Glance image service for both v1 and v2 `/images` API POST method for authenticated users, resulting in possible denial of service attacks through database table saturation.

Patch / fix

distros 1

spark OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 1.6.3-8.6.1
kibana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 4.6.3-3.6.1
ardana-mq OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1605176800.52cccfa-3.29.1
crowbar-ha OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 5.0+git.1610564036.b75ee1b-3.35.1
sleshammer OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 0.8.0-0.20.2
python-Django OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 1.11.29-3.22.1
ardana-horizon OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1610733160.0f577f4-3.21.1
ardana-logging OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1610573640.452aed1-3.27.1

suse advisories SUSE-RU-2021:0351-1 SUSE-SU-2020:3624-1 SUSE-RU-2018:3638-1 SUSE-SU-2018:2762-1 SUSE-SU-2018:2603-1

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-2016-8611 updated 2026-07-31 cvss 4.3

openstack-glance: Glance Image service v1 and v2 api image-create vulnerability

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) openstack-glance Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) openstack-glance Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) python-glance, openstack-glance Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) python-glance, openstack-glance Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) python-glance, openstack-glance, python-glance-tests Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) python-glance, openstack-glance, python-glance-tests
affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

2.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD	3.0	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

The Openstack Foundation openstack-glance

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

h20566.www2.hpe.com /hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c05333384
vendor-advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8611
issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
securitytracker.com /id/1037312
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/94378
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
seclists.org /oss-sec/2016/q4/266
mailing-list, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2016-8611
NVD CVE-2016-8611

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Summary