CVE-2014-0040 (GCVE-0-2014-0040)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-06-02 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, uses an HTTP connection to download (1) packages and (2) signing keys from Yum repositories, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to prevent updates via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059514 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commi… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
Date Public
2014-01-29 00:00
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