CVE-2014-8124
A denial of service flaw was found in the OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) when using the db or memcached session engine. An attacker could make repeated requests to the login page, which would result in a large number of unwanted backend session entries, possibly leading to a denial of service.
Find out more about CVE-2014-8124 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:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| 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 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 | RHSA-2015:0845 | 2015-04-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 | RHSA-2015:0839 | 2015-04-16 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 | python-django-openstack-auth | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 | python-django-horizon | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | python-django-openstack-auth | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | python-django-horizon | Will not fix |