CVE-2015-1851 — cinder
Fix: openstack/cinder@9634b76CVE-2015-1851 is a Information Exposure vulnerability in cinder. A fix is available for cinder — see the affected versions and patch details below.
OpenStack Cinder file disclosure in image convert
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
Real-World Exposure
cinderReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects PyPI packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
OpenStack Cinder before 2014.1.5 (icehouse), 2014.2.x before 2014.2.4 (juno), and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.1 (kilo) allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted qcow2 signature in an image to the upload-to-image command.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | cinder | all versions | 7.0.0a0pip install --upgrade 'cinder==7.0.0a0' |
Affected Products
ubuntu linuxcanonicalicehouseopenstackjunoopenstackkiloopenstackDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for cinder, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update cinder to 7.0.0a0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2015-1851 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 | openstack-cinder-0:2014.1.4-1.1.el6ost | RHSA-2015:1206 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2015-1851 in your dependencies?
Find it across PyPI, including transitive dependencies.