CVE-2014-8124
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) before 2014.1.3 and 2014.2.x before 2014.2.1 does not properly handle session records when using a db or memcached session engine, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of requests to the login page.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.htmlPatch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147520.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0845.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61186Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.htmlAdvisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370Advisory