Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-1856

Title: Openstack Swift

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-1856.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Apr 17, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.95%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-1856: OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) before 2.3.0, when allow_version is configured, allows remote authenticated users to delete the latest version of an object by leveraging listing access to the x-versions-location container.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

apple 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163113.html http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-April/000349.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00025.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1681.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1684.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1845.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1846.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74182 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2704-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1430645 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163113.html http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-April/000349.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00025.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1681.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1684.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1845.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1846.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74182 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2704-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1430645

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-1856 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.

April 17, 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:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.