CVE-2014-3517
A side-channel timing attack flaw was found in Nova. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to guess valid instance ID signatures, giving them access to details of another instance, by analyzing the response times of requests for instance metadata. This issue only affected configurations that proxy metadata requests via Neutron.
Find out more about CVE-2014-3517 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 (openstack-nova) | RHSA-2014:1084 | 2014-08-21 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 (openstack-nova) | RHSA-2014:0940 | 2014-07-24 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 | openstack-nova | Will not fix |