CVE-2014-5356: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) before 2013.2.4, 2014.x before 2014.1.3, and Juno before Juno-3, when using the V2 API, does not properly enforce the image_size_cap configuration option, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by uploading a large image.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only
  • Openstack Image Registry And Delivery Service (glance): up to and including 2013.2.3; version 2013.2 only; version 2013.2.1 only; version 2013.2.2 only; version 2014.1 only; version 2014.1.1 only; …

Published 2014-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.