CVE-2026-51773

high

Description

An issue in the VMware datastore driver of OpenStack glance_store. When an authenticated attacker provides a maliciously crafted image location URI pointing to an external server, the _retry_request function fails to validate the destination host before attaching sensitive authentication headers.

References

https://github.com/sadandbset/CVE-2026-51772-CVE-2026-51773/blob/main/CVE-2026-51773.md

https://github.com/sadandbset/CVE-2026-51772-CVE-2026-51773

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00319