MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2015-3221

Neutron vulnerability

CVSS
4.0
EPSS
11.3%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
OpenStack Neutron before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.1 (kilo), when using the IPTables firewall driver, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (L2 agent crash) by adding an address pair that is rejected by the ipset tool.
Affected vendor
Openstack
Affected product
Neutron
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2015-08-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-3221

  • Confirm whether Openstack Neutron is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-3221.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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