OpenStack Glance Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere vulnerability

published 2023-03-06 3 y ago modified 2026-07-01 4 mo ago also GHSA-5gp5-vxj6-4257 , PYSEC-2023-270 , EUVD-2023-0288

cvss: 2.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits: 0; none known

A flaw was found in openstack-glance. This issue could allow a remote, authenticated attacker to tamper with images, compromising the integrity of virtual machines created using these modified images.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-4134 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 4.8

openstack: glance & ceph conflict which allows image tampering

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) python-glance, openstack-glance, python-glance-tests Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 python3-glance, openstack-glance
affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 python3-glance, openstack-glance Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 python3-glance, openstack-glance
affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 20 mo ago (2025-03-06)

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	2.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	2.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CNA	3.1	2.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
OSV	3.1	2.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
GitHub	3.1	2.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
pypi	glance	<=25.1.0	no fix listed

Affected products

n/a openstack

Classification

Weakness

CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

References

wiki.openstack.org /wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0090
web, vendor-advisory, advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=2147462
web, issue-tracking, report
bugs.launchpad.net /glance/+bug/1990157
web, issue-tracking, report
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0757
advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4134
advisory
github.com /openstack/glance
package
github.com /pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/glance/PYSEC-2023-270.yaml
web
github.com /advisories/GHSA-5gp5-vxj6-4257
advisory

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary