CVE-2015-5162
The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance before 11.0.1 and 12.0.0; and Nova before 12.0.4 and 13.0.0…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The image parser in OpenStack Cinder 7.0.2 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.1; Glance before 11.0.1 and 12.0.0; and Nova before 12.0.4 and 13.0.0 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and disk consumption) via a crafted disk image.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
9
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1449062 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 76849 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0153 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161006 OSSA 2016-012] Malicious qemu-img input may exhaust resources in Cinder, Glance, Nova (CVE-2015-5162) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2923 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2991 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0165 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0156 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0282 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3861 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g2j5-7vgx-6xrx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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