Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-3221

Title: Openstack Neutron Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2015-3221

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Aug 26, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

11.34%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-3221: OpenStack Neutron before 2014.2.4 (juno) and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.1 (kilo), when using the IPTables firewall driver, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (L2 agent crash) by adding an address pair that is rejected by the ipset tool.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

Reference Links

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-June/000377.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1680.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75368 https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1461054 http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-June/000377.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1680.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75368 https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1461054

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-2015-3221 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37360

View Code

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.

August 26, 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.