CVE-2014-8124 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published 12 Dec 2014 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can cause denial of service in OpenStack Dashboard by flooding the login page when using specific session engines.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2014-8124?

CVE-2014-8124 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 Dec 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8124?

It affects 4 products.

Linux distribution packages (10)

`openstack-dashboard` Red Hat:openstack:5::el6	All versions	`0:2014.1.4-1.el6ost`
`openstack-dashboard-theme` Red Hat:openstack:5::el6	All versions	`0:2014.1.4-1.el6ost`
`python-django-horizon` Red Hat:openstack:5::el6	All versions	`0:2014.1.4-1.el6ost`
`python-django-horizon-doc` Red Hat:openstack:5::el6	All versions	`0:2014.1.4-1.el6ost`
`python-django-openstack-auth` Red Hat:openstack:5::el6	All versions	`0:1.1.5-4.el6ost`
`openstack-dashboard` Red Hat:openstack:5::el7	All versions	`0:2014.1.4-1.el7ost`
`openstack-dashboard-theme` Red Hat:openstack:5::el7	All versions	`0:2014.1.4-1.el7ost`
`python-django-horizon` Red Hat:openstack:5::el7	All versions	`0:2014.1.4-1.el7ost`
`python-django-horizon-doc` Red Hat:openstack:5::el7	All versions	`0:2014.1.4-1.el7ost`
`python-django-openstack-auth` Red Hat:openstack:5::el7	All versions	`0:1.1.5-4.el7ost`

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Openstack Horizon, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8124?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-8124 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8124 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8124, GHSA-q878-vxpg-6qx6, RHSA-2015:0839, RHSA-2015:0845, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8124.