CVE-2015-7548

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    CVE-2015-7548

    Published: 12 Jan 2016Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    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.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0018.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80176, https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-001.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High