Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5295

Title: Redhat Openstack Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-5295.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jan 20, 2016

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.4 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.93%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-5295: The template-validate command in OpenStack Orchestration API (Heat) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 5.0.x before 5.0.1 (liberty) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or determine the existence of local files via the resource type in a template, as demonstrated by file:///dev/zero.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 2

redhat 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176700.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0266.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81438 https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1496277 https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-003.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176700.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0266.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81438 https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1496277 https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-003.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.4

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

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:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-5295 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.

January 20, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.