Vulnerability in cinder (CVE-2015-5162)
Summary
Vulnerability in cinder (CVE-2015-5162). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 9.0.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
The image parser in OpenStack Cinder prior to 7.0.2, and 8.0.0 and above, prior to 9.0.0; Glance prior to 14.00; and Nova prior to 12.0.4 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. This issue is patched in Cinder 7.0.2 and 9.0.0; Glance 14.0.0; and Nova 12.0.4
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2015-5162 has been found in cinder.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade cinder to 9.0.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "cinder CVE-2015-5162" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2015-5162 (cinder) — CWE-400
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 9.0.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-400) exists in cinder.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of cinder.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 9.0.0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'cinder' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'cinder' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
cinderを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade cinder to 9.0.0ステージング環境で 9.0.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5162 cinder Fixed in: 2:8.0.0-1
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com
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- web access.redhat.com
- web bugzilla.redhat.com
- web launchpad.net
- web rhn.redhat.com
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