CVE-2014-8750
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
Race condition in the VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2 before 2014.2rc1 allows remote authenticated users to access unintended consoles by spawning an instance that triggers the same VNC port to be allocated to two different instances.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
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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✚ 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.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| forky | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8750.html
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000293.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1689.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60227
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/14/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70182
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1357372
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8750
CWEs
CWE-362
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.