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CVE-2015-5251

Published: Oct 26, 2015Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-264
NVD MITRE
5.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
2.0%
Top 21.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

OpenStack Image Service (Glance) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) allow remote authenticated users to change the status of their images and bypass access restrictions via the HTTP x-image-meta-status header to images/*.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:SC:NI:PA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:SAuthentication
Single
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:PIntegrity
Partial
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected Products

image registry and delivery service \(glance\)openstack
On-prem
Cloud & SaaS / cloud-platform
glancePyPIOSS Libraries
n/an/a
openstackoss-projectUSCloud & SaaSaka openstack foundation
pypipackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1897.html
rhn.redhat.com
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1482371
bugs.launchpad.net
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-019.html
security.openstack.org
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Timeline

Published
Oct 26, 2015
Last Updated
May 6, 2026

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