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CVE-2014-8124
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…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 61186 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0845 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [openstack-announce] 20141209 [OSSA 2014-040] Horizon denial of service attack through login page (CVE-2014-8124) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-17177 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0839 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0078 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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