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    CVE-2014-8750

    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.

    Published:Aug 15, 2014
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Oct 15, 2014
    EPSS Score:0.01342
    CVSS Score:6.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Openstack
    Product
    Nova
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Openstack

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-127 Directory Indexing
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-17 Using Malicious Files
    CAPEC-26 Leveraging Race Conditions
    CAPEC-27 Leveraging Race Conditions via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
    CAPEC-39 Manipulating Opaque Client-based Data Tokens
    CAPEC-402 Bypassing ATA Password Security
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-5 Blue Boxing
    CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry
    CAPEC-59 Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    CAPEC-60 Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
    CAPEC-647 Collect Data from Registries
    CAPEC-668 Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack (KNOB)
    CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls
    CAPEC-77 Manipulating User-Controlled Variables
    CAPEC-87 Forceful Browsing

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2022-47951 (CVSS 5.7) — An issue was discovered in OpenStack Cinder before 19.1.2, 20.x before 20.0.2, and 21.0.0; Glance before 23.0.…
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    CVE-2019-14433 (CVSS 6.5) — An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova before 17.0.12, 18.x before 18.2.2, and 19.x before 19.0.2. If an AP…

    References

    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
    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

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High