Description
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.
Published: 2016-01-20
Score: 5.4 Medium
EPSS: 1.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-5272 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.
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Fedoraproject Fedora
Openstack Orchestration Api
Oracle Solaris
Redhat Openstack
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:41:09.527Z

Reserved: 2015-07-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-5295

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-01-20T16:59:00.113

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-5295

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-5295 - Bugzilla

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