CVE-2014-0042

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-0042
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-06-02 15:55:11 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionOpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, sets gpgcheck to 0 for certain templates, which disables GPG signature checking on downloaded packages and allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-310 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redhat Openstack 4.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secure private repo files added to environment · openstack/heat-templates@65a4f8b · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Patch
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
1059520 – (CVE-2014-0042) CVE-2014-0042 OpenStack openstack-heat-templates: setting gpgcheck=0 for signed packages af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Bug #1267635 “security issues in heat templates” : Bugs : Heat Templates af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.launchpad.net
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