CVE-2014-0040

critical

Description

OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, uses an HTTP connection to download (1) packages and (2) signing keys from Yum repositories, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to prevent updates via unspecified vectors.

References

https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-0137

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059514

https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-06-02

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01466