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CVE-2015-1881 (GCVE-0-2015-1881)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-24 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:54
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Summary
OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) 2014.2 through 2014.2.2 does not properly remove images, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating a large number of images using the task v2 API and then deleting them, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-9684.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0938.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1420696 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72694 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2015-02-23 00:00
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