CVE-2014-8124

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Publication date:

12/12/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon::::::::	2014.1 (including)	2014.1.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon::::::::	2014.2.0 (including)	2014.2.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2014-8124

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools