CVE-2015-5295

MediumCVSS 5.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The template-validate command in OpenStack Orchestration API (Heat) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 5.0.x before 5.0.1 (liberty) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or determine the existence of local files via the resource type in a template, as demonstrated by file:///dev/zero.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.4/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176700.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0266.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81438Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1496277Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-003.htmlVendor Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176700.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0266.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81438Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1496277Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-003.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jan 20, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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