Information disclosure in OpenStack Nova

CVE-2015-7548

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (78.2th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2015-7548: held from 0.019 to 0.018.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.018 · change: -0.001

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-7548?
CVE-2015-7548 is a low-severity vulnerability in OpenStack Nova, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2016-01-12.
How severe is CVE-2015-7548?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.