ubuntu-cve-2015-7548
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-01-12 00:00
Modified
2025-09-08 16:43
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
3.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-ajax-console-proxy",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-api",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-api-ec2",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-api-metadata",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-api-os-compute",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-api-os-volume",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-baremetal",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-cells",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-cert",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-common",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-compute",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-compute-kvm",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-compute-libvirt",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-compute-lxc",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-compute-qemu",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-compute-vmware",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-compute-xen",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-conductor",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-console",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-consoleauth",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-network",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-novncproxy",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-objectstore",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-scheduler",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-spiceproxy",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-volume",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "nova-xvpvncproxy",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "python-nova",
            "binary_version": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "nova",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/nova@1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1:2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2013.2-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu2",
        "1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu3",
        "1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu4",
        "1:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu2",
        "1:2014.1~rc1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1~rc2-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1-0ubuntu1.2",
        "1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1.1-0ubuntu2",
        "1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.1",
        "1:2014.1.3-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1.3-0ubuntu1.1",
        "1:2014.1.3-0ubuntu2",
        "1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2",
        "1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2.1",
        "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1",
        "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.1",
        "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.2",
        "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.3",
        "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.4",
        "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.5",
        "1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.6"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7548",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T16:43:28Z",
  "published": "2016-01-12T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7548"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2016-January/000911.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3449-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7548"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-3449-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2015-7548"
  ]
}



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