CVE-2015-5162: Openstack Cinder

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Openstack Cinder: version 7.0.2 only; version 8.0.0 only; version 8.1.0 only
• Openstack Glance: up to and including 11.0.0; version 11.0.1 only; version 12.0.0 only
• Openstack Nova: up to and including 12.0.3; version 13.0.0 only

Published 2016-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.