CVE-2014-8750

medium

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1357372

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70182

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/14/9

http://secunia.com/advisories/60227

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1689.html

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000293.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-10-15

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00929