MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-51773 (CVSS 8.1)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 25, 2026Risk 37/100
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.
Technical details
CVSS
8.1
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:LowUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:None
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