CVE-2014-0040

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-01-09
CWE:
(CWE-201|CWE-522)
Bugzilla:
1059514: CVE-2014-0040 OpenStack openstack-heat-templates: use of HTTP to download signing keys/code

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2014-0040 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 (openstack-heat-templates) RHSA-2014:0579 2014-05-29

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Grant Murphy of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

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