CVE-2014-8124

Summary

CVECVE-2014-8124
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-12-12 15:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 00:43:00 UTC
DescriptionOpenStack 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Application Openstack Horizon All All All All
Application Openstack Horizon All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris 11.2 All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris 11.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Broken Link
Oracle Bulletin Board Update - January 2015 CONFIRM www.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software » Message: [openstack-announce] [OSSA 2014-040] Horizon denial of service attack through login page (CVE-2014-8124) MLIST lists.openstack.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA61186 - OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) Session Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
CVE-2014-8124 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
openSUSE-SU-2015:0078-1: moderate: Security Update for openstack-dashboa SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
1169637 – (CVE-2014-8124) CVE-2014-8124 python-django-horizon: denial of service via login page requests MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Broken Link
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Bug #1394370 “[OSSA 2014-040] horizon login page is vulnerable t...” : Bugs : OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: python-django-horizon-2014.1.3-2.fc21 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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