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.

• CWE-119

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176700.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0266.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81438Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1496277Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-003.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176700.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0266.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81438Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1496277Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2016-003.htmlVendor Advisory

Published

Jan 20, 2016

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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