CVE-2015-2687

Publication date 9 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

OpenStack Compute (nova) Icehouse, Juno and Havana when live migration fails allows local users to access VM volumes that they would normally not have permissions for.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nova	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.10 utopic	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

according to bug report, issue applies to havana and earlier

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.7 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.7 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2687