OSSA-2015-014: Glance v2 API host file disclosure through qcow2 backing file

Date:

August 13, 2015

CVE:

CVE-2015-5163

Affects

• Glance: 2015.1 versions through 2015.1.1

Description

Eric Harney from Red Hat reported a vulnerability in Glance. By importing a qcow2 image with a malicious backing file, an authenticated user may mislead Glance import task action, resulting in the disclosure of any file on the Glance server for which the Glance process user has access to. Only setups using the Glance V2 API are affected by this flaw.

Patches

• https://review.openstack.org/212568 (Kilo)

• https://review.openstack.org/212567 (Liberty)

Credits

• Eric Harney from Red Hat (CVE-2015-5163)

References

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1471912

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5163

Notes

• This fix will be included in the future 2015.1.2 (kilo) release.