UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7548

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7548

    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7548

    Published: 12 Jan 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7548
    Aliases:
    USN-3449-1

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7548, http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2016-January/000911.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3449-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7548

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nova

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nova@1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7

    Affected versions

    1:2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu1

    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