PyPI: glance
CVE-2014-9684
Safety vulnerability ID: SFTY-20150224-45323
Safety legacy ID: pyup.io-70454
OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) 2014.2 through 2014.2.2 does not properly remove images, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating a large number of images using the task v2 API and then deleting them before the uploads finish, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1881.
Overview
OpenStack Glance Denial of service by creating a large number of images
Advisory
OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) 2014.2 through 2014.2.2 does not properly remove images, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by creating a large number of images using the task v2 API and then deleting them before the uploads finish, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1881.
How to Fix
We recommend updating glance to the latest non-vulnerable version.
Mitigation and Workarounds
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Vulnerable Functions
Functions linked to known vulnerabilities.
References
- https://getsafety.com/vulnerabilities/SFTY-20150224-45323/CVE-2014-9684
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9684
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1371118
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-February/000336.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0938.html
- https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/7858d4d95154c8596720365e465cca7858cfec5c
- https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/a880c8e762e94b70c1e5d5692a3defcde734a601
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/glance/PYSEC-2015-37.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h737-q6g6-8wr6
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