CVE-2015-7548
lowpriority · track · 15EPSS 0.018 · 78 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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affected products (3)
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references (7)
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- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-001.htmlcnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0018.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80176enisa_euvd
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-001.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0018.htmlThird Party Advisorynvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80176Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-001.htmlVendor Advisorynvd
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