Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-9623

Title: Redhat Openstack Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-9623.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Jan 23, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.84%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-9623: OpenStack Glance 2014.2.x through 2014.2.1, 2014.1.3, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to bypass the storage quota and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by deleting an image in the saving state.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 2

redhat 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0644.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0837.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0838.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62165 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/18/4 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1383973 https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1398830 https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-003.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0644.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0837.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0838.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62165 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/18/4 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1383973 https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1398830 https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-003.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-9623 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 23, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.