CVE-2015-7548

low

Published 2016-01-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

3.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.5

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 12.0.x before 12.0.1 (liberty), when using libvirt to spawn instances and use_cow_images is set to false, allow remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files by overwriting an instance disk with a crafted image and requesting a snapshot.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

45%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2:13.0.0~rc3-1`
sid	Fixed	`2:13.0.0~rc3-1`
forky	Fixed	`2:13.0.0~rc3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2:13.0.0~rc3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2:13.0.0~rc3-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openstack	nova	`{"startIncluding":"12.0.0","endExcluding":"12.0.1"}`	`12.0.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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