CVE-2014-8177

medium

Published 2016-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

The Red Hat gluster-swift package, as used in Red Hat Gluster Storage (formerly Red Hat Storage Server), allows remote authenticated users to bypass the max_meta_count constraint via multiple crafted requests which exceed the limit when combined.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Not affected	—
6.0	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
redhat	gluster_storage_management_console	`3.1`
redhat	gluster_storage_server	`3.1`
redhat	storage_native_client	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.