Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5240

Title: Openstack Neutron Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-5240.

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date Oct 27, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.96%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-5240: Race condition in OpenStack Neutron before 2014.2.4 and 2015.1 before 2015.1.2, when using the ML2 plugin or the security groups AMQP API, allows remote authenticated users to bypass IP anti-spoofing controls by changing the device owner of a port to start with network: before the security group rules are applied.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1909.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/08/9 https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1489111 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258458 https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-018.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1909.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/08/9 https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1489111 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258458 https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-018.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-5240 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.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 27, 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:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.