What is CVE-2016-8611?

CVE-2016-8611 is a medium-severity vulnerability in OpenStack Glance, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2018-07-31.

How severe is CVE-2016-8611?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in OpenStack Glance

CVE-2016-8611

A vulnerability was found in Openstack Glance. No limits are enforced within the Glance image service for both v1 and v2 `/images` API POST method for authenticated users, resulting in possible denial of service attacks through database table saturation.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2018-07-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.023 (83.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-21.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.023 · change: +0.002

Affected products

OpenStack Glance
The OpenStack Foundation Openstack-Glance — versions v1 and v2

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037312 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94378 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display (Vendor Advisory)
seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/266 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-8611?: CVE-2016-8611 is a medium-severity vulnerability in OpenStack Glance, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2018-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2016-8611?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.