CVE-2014-8124

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-12-12 15:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2019-04-22 17:48:00

Affected Software

OpenStack OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) 2014.2.0

2014.2.0

Fedora 21

21

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

References

FEDORA-2014-17177

Third Party Advisory

[openstack-announce] 20141209 [OSSA 2014-040] Horizon denial of service attack through login page (CVE-2014-8124)

Patch, Vendor Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2015:0078

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2015:0839

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2015:0845

Third Party Advisory

61186

Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370

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