THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2015-5162
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2015-5162

Cinder vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Openstack
Affected product
Cinder
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2016-10-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-5162

  • Confirm whether Openstack Cinder is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-5162.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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