CVE-2014-8750 (GCVE-0-2014-8750)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-10-15 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:26
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1689.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/14/9 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-an… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70182 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2014-10-14 00:00
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