CVE-2014-0042 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2014-0042?

CVE-2014-0042 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Openstack, published on 2 Jun 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, sets gpgcheck to 0 for certain templates, which disables GPG signature checking on downloaded packages and allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-310

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0042?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Openstack.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0042?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-0042 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0042 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-38065 Privilege escalation in OpenStack High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4474 Hardcoded credentials in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2021-31918 Information disclosure in tripleo-ansible High 7.5

All Redhat Openstack vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-59c5-w7cq-xv24.