CVE-2015-3241

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-3241
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-09-08 15:59:01 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionOpenStack Compute (nova) 2015.1 through 2015.1.1, 2014.2.3, and earlier does not stop the migration process when the instance is deleted, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk, network, and other resource consumption) by resizing and then deleting an instance.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Nova All All All All
Application Openstack Nova All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
ossa/OSSA-2015-015.yaml at 482576204dec96f580817b119e3166d71c757731 · openstack/ossa · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Third Party Advisory
OpenStack Nova CVE-2015-3241 Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
OSSA-2015-015: Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted — OpenStack Security Advisories 2014.2.0.dev98 documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.openstack.org Vendor Advisory
Bug #1387543 “[OSSA 2015-015] Resize/delete combo allows to over...” : Bugs : OpenStack Compute (nova) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 launchpad.net Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MITRE access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com | CVE-2015-3241 MITRE access.redhat.com
Bug 1232782 – CVE-2015-3241 openstack-nova: Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted MITRE bugzilla.redhat.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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