PT-2015-6130 · Openstack+1 · Openstack Compute+1

George Shuklin + 1 · CVE-2015-3280 · Published 2015-10-26 · Updated 2026-07-06

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Compute (nova) versions before 2014.2.4 (juno) OpenStack Compute (nova) versions 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo)

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, specifically disk consumption, by deleting instances while they are in the resize state. This occurs because OpenStack Compute (nova) does not properly delete instances from compute nodes.

Recommendations For versions before 2014.2.4 (juno), update to version 2014.2.4 or later to resolve the issue. For versions 2015.1.x before 2015.1.2 (kilo), update to version 2015.1.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3280

GHSA-MFMJ-GWG3-VHW7

PYSEC-2026-877

RHSA-2015:1898

SUSE-SU-2015:2219-1

SUSE-SU-2015:2220-1

USN-3449-1

Affected Products

Openstack Compute

Ubuntu

References · 50

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2140 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3280 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3280 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3280 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7548 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mfmj-gwg3-vhw7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5162 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3449-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3280 · Security Note
• https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2015-017.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3280 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-3280 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1898.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8749 · Vendor Advisory