CVE-2015-5295

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-01-19
CWE:
CWE-400
Bugzilla:
1298295: CVE-2015-5295 openstack-heat: Vulnerability in Heat template validation leading to DoS
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenStack Orchestration service (heat), where a specially formatted template could be used to trick the heat-engine service into opening a local file. Although the file contents are never disclosed to the end user, an OpenStack-authenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or determine whether a given file name is present on the server.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5295 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 (openstack-heat) RHSA-2016:0266 2016-02-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (openstack-heat) RHSA-2016:0441 2016-03-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 (openstack-heat) RHSA-2016:0440 2016-03-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 (openstack-heat) RHSA-2016:0442 2016-03-14

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) openstack-heat Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Steven Hardy of Red Hat.

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