🛡️ CVE-2015-5240 — neutron

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-362 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenStack Neutron Race condition vulnerability

Race condition in OpenStack Neutron before 2014.2.4 and 2015.1 before 2015.1.2, when using the ML2 plugin or the security groups AMQP API, allows remote authenticated users to bypass IP anti-spoofing controls by changing the device owner of a port to start with network: before the security group rules are applied.

Weakness class

CVE-2015-5240 is classified as CWE-362: Race Condition. Concurrent operations share state without proper synchronisation, so timing decides whether the result is correct.

Affected software

CVE-2015-5240 is recorded against 1 package.

  • neutron (fixed in 7.0.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
bugs.launchpad.net (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
security.openstack.org (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-362
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
neutron 7.0.0

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