CVE-2015-8749: Openstack Nova

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The volume_utils._parse_volume_info function in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.1 (liberty) includes the connection_info dictionary in the StorageError message when using the Xen backend, which might allow attackers to obtain sensitive password information by reading log files or other unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Openstack Nova: from 12.0.0, before 12.0.1 (fixed in 12.0.1); from 2015.1.0, before 2015.1.3 (fixed in 2015.1.3)

Published 2016-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.