VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-8611
A vulnerability was found in Openstack Glance.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.30%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A vulnerability was found in Openstack Glance. No limits are enforced within the Glance image service for both v1 and v2 `/images` API POST method for authenticated users, resulting in possible denial of service attacks through database table saturation.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.30% probability · 83th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400, CWE-20
- Affected
- openstack/glance
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 2.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/266Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94378Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037312Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8611Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c05333384Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/266Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94378Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037312Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8611Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c05333384Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.