CVE-2015-5295

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Published 2016-01-20 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.4

Description

The template-validate command in OpenStack Orchestration API (Heat) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 5.0.x before 5.0.1 (liberty) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or determine the existence of local files via the resource type in a template, as demonstrated by file:///dev/zero.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

64%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:6.0.0~rc3-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:6.0.0~rc3-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:6.0.0~rc3-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:6.0.0~rc3-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:6.0.0~rc3-1`
fedora	23	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openstack	orchestration_api	`{"startIncluding":"5.0.0","endExcluding":"5.0.1"}`	`5.0.1`
redhat	openstack	`7.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.