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title: "CVE-2014-9493\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2014-9493

Publication date 7 January 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

The V2 API in OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service (Glance) before
2014.2.2 and 2014.1.4 allows remote authenticated users to read or delete
arbitrary files via a full pathname in a file: URL in the image location
property.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9493?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| glance | 15.04 vivid | Not affected |
| 14.10 utopic | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Fixed 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu1 |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not affected |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9493?format=md#patch-details)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

Per upstream, "A potential mitigation strategy available for
operators is to change the glance policy to restrict access to administrators
for get\_image\_location, set\_image\_location, and delete\_image\_location."
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS not affected (does not have V2 API)
preliminary packages for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 14.10 can be found in:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security-proposed/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

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### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur)

This issue wasn't fully addressed by the original patches, see:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-January/000323.html
incomplete fix got CVE-2015-1195

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| glance | * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/142788> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/142373> * Upstream:   <https://review.openstack.org/141706> |

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9493)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9493)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2014-9493)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9493)

### Other references

* <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-January/000319.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9493>