CVE-2015-7548

LowCVSS 3.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.1 (liberty), when using libvirt to spawn instances and use_cow_images is set to false, allow remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image and requesting a snapshot.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 3.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-200

Affected software

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

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0018.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80176Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-001.htmlVendor Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0018.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80176Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-001.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jan 12, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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