CVE-2014-2828

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-03-31
CWE:
CWE-20->CWE-400
Bugzilla:
1086211: CVE-2014-2828 openstack-keystone: denial of service via V3 API authentication chaining
A flaw was found in the keystone V3 API. An attacker could send a single request with the same authentication method multiple times, possibly leading to a denial of service due to generating excessive load with minimal requests. Only keystone setups with the V3 API enabled were affected by this issue.

Find out more about CVE-2014-2828 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 (openstack-keystone) RHSA-2014:1688 2014-10-22

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 openstack-keystone Will not fix

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