CVE-2015-5251

mediumpriority · track · 23OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.021 · 81 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.05% (81st) EPSS

CVSS 5.5 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

OpenStack Image Service (Glance) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) allow remote authenticated users to change the status of their images and bypass access restrictions via the HTTP x-image-meta-status header to images/*.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 4.9

v2.04.7mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimaryCWE-863US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
openstack image registry and delivery service (glance)≤ 2014.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack image registry and delivery service (glance)= 2015.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack image registry and delivery service (glance)= 2015.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:image_registry_and_delivery_service_\(glance\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI glance2011.2 → 2014.2.4osvUSpkg:pypi/glance
PyPI glance2015.1.0 → 2015.1.2osvUSpkg:pypi/glance

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-q748-mcwg-xmqvOpenStack Image Service (Glance) allows remote authenticated users to bypass access restrictions2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
OpenStack Image Service (Glance) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) allow remote authenticated users to change the status of their images and bypass access restrictions via the HTTP x-image-meta-status header to images/*.
PYSEC-2026-816OpenStack Image Service (Glance) allows remote authenticated users to bypass access restrictions2026-07-06vendor · osvUS
OpenStack Image Service (Glance) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) allow remote authenticated users to change the status of their images and bypass access restrictions via the HTTP x-image-meta-status header to images/*.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2015-10-26modified 2026-06-17

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references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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