id: PYSEC-2026-2412
published: "2026-07-09T16:49:46.203913Z"
modified: "2026-07-09T16:49:46.203913Z"
aliases:
- CVE-2015-5162
- GHSA-g2j5-7vgx-6xrx
summary: OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova contain Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
details: 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
affected:
- package:
    name: cinder
    ecosystem: PyPI
    purl: pkg:pypi/cinder
  ranges:
  - type: ECOSYSTEM
    events:
    - introduced: "0"
    - fixed: 7.0.2
    - introduced: 8.0.0
    - fixed: 9.0.0
references:
- type: ADVISORY
  url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5162
- type: WEB
  url: https://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/455b318ced717fb38dfe40014817d78fbc47dea5
- type: WEB
  url: https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/69a9b659fd48aa3c1f84fc7bc9ae236b6803d31f
- type: WEB
  url: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/6bc37dcceca823998068167b49aec6def3112397
- type: WEB
  url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5162
- type: WEB
  url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268303
- type: WEB
  url: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1449062
- type: WEB
  url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2923.html
- type: WEB
  url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2991.html
- type: WEB
  url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0153.html
- type: WEB
  url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0156.html
- type: WEB
  url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0165.html
- type: WEB
  url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0282.html
- type: WEB
  url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/06/8
- type: WEB
  url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76849
- type: PACKAGE
  url: https://pypi.org/project/cinder
- type: ADVISORY
  url: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g2j5-7vgx-6xrx
severity:
- type: CVSS_V3
  score: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H