CVE-2014-8750 Race condition in n/a
Authenticated users can access unintended VNC consoles via a race condition in the VMware driver, potentially exposing sensitive instance data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-8750?
CVE-2014-8750 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 15 Oct 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-362
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8750?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (14)
openstack-nova Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-api Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-cells Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-cert Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-common Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-compute Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-conductor Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-console Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-doc Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-network Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-novncproxy Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-objectstore Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
openstack-nova-scheduler Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
python-nova Red Hat:openstack:4::el6 | All versions | 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost |
Products include Openstack Nova.
How do I fix CVE-2014-8750?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2014-8750 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8750 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2017-7214 OpenStack Nova logs sensitive context from notification exceptions
- CVE-2017-17051 OpenStack Nova DoS by rebuilding the same instance with a new image multiple times
- CVE-2020-17376 OpenStack Nova Live migration fails to update persistent domain XML
- CVE-2017-18191 OpenStack Nova Denial of service attack on the compute host
- CVE-2015-3280 OpenStack Compute (nova) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2pcw-fgm2-4xh2, RHSA-2014:1689.