UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8124

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8124

    Published: 12 Dec 2014Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-8124

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8124, http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8124

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: horizon

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/horizon@1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2

    Affected versions

    1:2013.2~rc3-0ubuntu1

    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
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