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CVE-2014-0040

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected products

• OpenStack: 4.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059514
• https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059514
• https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3

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