CVE-2016-8611

6.5 mediumEPSS 2.3%

Medium (6.5) in openstack glance. EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-400, CWE-20
Published: 2018-07-31
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

openstack:glance

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/266
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94378
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037312
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8611
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c05333384

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