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CVE-2014-8124

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-12-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) before 2014.1.3 and 2014.2.x before 2014.2.1 does not properly handle session records when using a db or memcached session engine, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of requests to the login page.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 21
• OpenStack Horizon: from 2014.1 before 2014.1.3; from 2014.2.0 before 2014.2.1 — fixed in 2014.1.3, 2014.2.1
• Opensuse: 13.1
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Horizon 2014.1.3, 2014.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147520.html
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0845.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61186
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147520.html
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html

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