PYSEC-2026-816

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    PYSEC-2026-816

    Published: 6 Jul 2026Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary: OpenStack Image Service (Glance) allows remote authenticated users to bypass access restrictions

    Details: OpenStack Image Service (Glance) before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo) allow remote authenticated users to change the status of their images and bypass access restrictions via the HTTP x-image-meta-status header to images/*.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5251, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1897, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5251, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1482371, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263511, https://opendev.org/openstack/glance, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1897.html, https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-019.html, https://pypi.org/project/glance, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q748-mcwg-xmqv

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: glance

    Purl: pkg:pypi/glance

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 2011.2
    Fixed -2014.2.4

    Affected versions

    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
    PYSEC-2026-816 | CVE-DB