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CVE-2015-3241

OpenStack Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted

6.8 MediumFix available

OpenStack 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.

Exploit likelihood

3.48%Up 2.2 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.8

OpenStack 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.

Record
CVE-2015-3241
CVSS 2.0
6.8 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness
CWE-399
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

OpenStack 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.

Record
CVE-2015-3241
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-2248 No score

OpenStack 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.

Record
EUVD-2022-2248
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-3vx7-xff6-h2vx No score

OpenStack Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted

OpenStack 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.

Record
GHSA-3vx7-xff6-h2vx
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

OpenStack 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.

Record
CVE-2015-3241
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2015-3241 No score

OpenStack 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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3241
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVGHSA-3vx7-xff6-h2vx No score

OpenStack Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted

OpenStack 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.

Record
GHSA-3vx7-xff6-h2vx
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVPYSEC-2026-861 No score

OpenStack Nova instance migration process does not stop when instance is deleted

OpenStack 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.

Record
PYSEC-2026-861
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:2219-1 No score

Security update for openstack-nova

This update for openstack-nova provides various fixes and improvements:

  • Fix regression where launched instances in tenants not visible for other users. (bsc#927625)
  • Remove error messages from multipath command output before parsing. (bsc#949529)
  • Fix live-migration usage of the wrong connector information.
  • Added requirement for memcached to python-nova. (bsc#942457)
  • Don't expect meta attributes in object_compat that aren't in the db obj. (bsc#949070, CVE-2015-7713)
  • Delete orphaned instance files from compute nodes (bsc#944178, CVE-2015-3280)
  • Kill rsync/scp processes before deleting instance. (bsc#935017, CVE-2015-3241)
  • Sync process utils from oslo for execute callbacks. (bsc#935017, CVE-2015-3241)
  • Fix rebuild of an instance with a volume attached.
  • Fixes _cleanup_rbd code to capture ImageBusy exception.
  • Don't try to confine a non-NUMA instance.
  • Include blank volumes in the block device mapping (bsc#945923)
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:2219-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:2220-1 No score

Security update for openstack-nova and openstack-neutron

This update for openstack-nova and openstack-neutron provides various fixes and improvements.

openstack-nova:

  • Fix instance filtering. (bsc#927625)
  • Remove error messages from multipath command output before parsing. (bsc#949529)
  • Fix live-migration usage of the wrong connector information.
  • Added requirement for memcached to python-nova. (bsc#942457)
  • Don't expect meta attributes in object_compat that aren't in the db obj. (bsc#949070, CVE-2015-7713)
  • Kill rsync/scp processes before deleting instance. (bsc#935017, CVE-2015-3241)
  • Sync process utils from oslo for execute callbacks. (bsc#935017, CVE-2015-3241)
  • Fix rebuild of an instance with a volume attached.
  • Fixes _cleanup_rbd code to capture ImageBusy exception.
  • Don't try to confine a non-NUMA instance.
  • Include blank volumes in the block device mapping (bsc#945923)
  • Delete orphaned instance files from compute nodes (bsc#944178, CVE-2015-3280)

openstack-neutron:

  • Fix usage_audit to work with ML2.
  • Fix UDP offloading issue with virtio VMs. (bsc#948704)
  • Fix ipset can't be destroyed when last rule is deleted.
  • Add ARP spoofing protection for LinuxBridge agent.
  • Don't use ARP responder for IPv6 addresses in ovs.
  • Stop device_owner from being set to 'network:*'. (bsc#943648, CVE-2015-5240)
  • NSX-mh: use router_distributed flag.
  • NSX-mh: Failover controller connections on socket failures.
  • NSX-mh: Prevent failures on router delete.
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:2220-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2015-3241 No score

OpenStack 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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3241
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3449-1 No score

nova vulnerabilities

George Shuklin discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled the migration process. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3241)

George Shuklin and Tushar Patil discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled deleting instances. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume disk resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3280)

It was discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly limited qemu-img calls. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5162)

Matthew Booth discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled snapshots. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to read arbitrary files. (CVE-2015-7548)

Sreekumar S. and Suntao discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly applied security group changes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended restriction changes by leveraging an instance that was running when the change was made. (CVE-2015-7713)

Matt Riedemann discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled logging. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information from log files. (CVE-2015-8749)

Matthew Booth discovered that OpenStack Nova incorrectly handled certain qcow2 headers. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. (CVE-2016-2140)

Record
USN-3449-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
nova
PyPI
before 12.0.0.0b3
12.0.0.0b3
nova
Debian:12
before 1:12.0.0-2
1:12.0.0-2
nova
Debian:13
before 1:12.0.0-2
1:12.0.0-2
nova
Debian:14
before 1:12.0.0-2
1:12.0.0-2
nova
PyPI
before 112.0.0.0b3, plus listed versions
15.1.516.1.616.1.716.1.817.0.10
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17.0.1117.0.1217.0.1317.0.717.0.817.0.918.0.218.0.318.1.018.2.018.2.118.2.218.2.318.3.019.0.019.0.0.0rc119.0.0.0rc219.0.119.0.219.0.319.1.019.2.019.3.019.3.119.3.220.0.020.0.0.0rc120.0.0.0rc220.0.120.1.020.1.120.2.020.3.020.4.020.4.120.5.020.6.020.6.121.0.021.0.0.0rc121.0.0.0rc221.1.021.1.121.1.221.2.0
112.0.0.0b3
openstack-nova
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-api
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-cells
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-cert
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-common
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
openstack-nova-compute
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-conductor
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-console
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-doc
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-network
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-novncproxy
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-objectstore
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-scheduler
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-serialproxy
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
python-nova
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
0:2015.1.0-18.el7ost
openstack-nova
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-api
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-cells
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-cert
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-common
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-compute
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-conductor
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-console
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-doc
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-network
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-novncproxy
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-objectstore
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-scheduler
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova-serialproxy
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
python-nova
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
0:2014.1.5-3.el6ost
openstack-nova
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-api
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-cells
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-cert
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-common
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-compute
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-conductor
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-console
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-doc
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-network
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-novncproxy
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-objectstore
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-scheduler
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova-serialproxy
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
python-nova
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
0:2014.1.5-5.el7ost
openstack-nova
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-api
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-cells
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-cert
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-common
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-compute
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-conductor
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-console
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-doc
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-network
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-novncproxy
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-objectstore
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-scheduler
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova-serialproxy
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
python-nova
Red Hat:openstack:6::el7
before 0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
0:2014.2.3-31.el7ost
openstack-nova
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-api
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-cells
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-cert
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-common
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-compute
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-conductor
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-console
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-doc
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-network
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-novncproxy
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-objectstore
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-scheduler
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-serialproxy
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
python-nova
Red Hat:openstack:7::el7
before 0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
0:2015.1.1-3.el7ost
openstack-nova
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 5
before 2014.2.4~a0~dev80-20.1
2014.2.4~a0~dev80-20.1
openstack-nova-doc
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 5
before 2014.2.4~a0~dev80-20.1
2014.2.4~a0~dev80-20.1
openstack-neutron
SUSE:Cloud Compute Node for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 5
before 2014.2.4~a0~dev103-10.3
2014.2.4~a0~dev103-10.3
openstack-nova
SUSE:Cloud Compute Node for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 5
before 2014.2.4~a0~dev80-14.1
2014.2.4~a0~dev80-14.1
python-python-memcached
SUSE:Cloud Compute Node for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 5
before 1.54-2.1
1.54-2.1
nova
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7, plus listed versions
1:2013.2~rc2-0ubuntu11:2013.2-0ubuntu11:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu11:2014.1~b1-0ubuntu21:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu3
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1:2014.1~b2-0ubuntu41:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu11:2014.1~b3-0ubuntu21:2014.1~rc1-0ubuntu11:2014.1~rc2-0ubuntu11:2014.1-0ubuntu11:2014.1-0ubuntu1.21:2014.1.1-0ubuntu11:2014.1.1-0ubuntu21:2014.1.2-0ubuntu11:2014.1.2-0ubuntu1.11:2014.1.3-0ubuntu11:2014.1.3-0ubuntu1.11:2014.1.3-0ubuntu21:2014.1.4-0ubuntu21:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2.11:2014.1.5-0ubuntu11:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.11:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.21:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.31:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.41:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.51:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.6
1:2014.1.5-0ubuntu1.7

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2015-3241 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) in Openstack Nova, published September 8, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 3.48%, the 89th percentile. Fixed in nova 12.0.0.0b3.

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