CVE-2014-8428
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
Privilege escalation vulnerability in Barracuda Load Balancer 5.0.0.015 via the use of an improperly protected SSH key.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| barracuda | load_balancer | 5.0.0.015 | |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130027/Barracuda-Load-Balancer-ADC-Key-Recovery-Password-Reset.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/76
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130027/Barracuda-Load-Balancer-ADC-Key-Recovery-Password-Reset.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/76
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.