PT-2014-8417 · Openstack · Openstack Dashboard

Eric Peterson · Published 2014-12-12 · Updated 2026-05-06 · CVE-2014-8124

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) versions prior to 2014.1.3 OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) versions 2014.2.x prior to 2014.2.1

Description The issue arises from improper handling of session records when using a db or memcached session engine. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a large number of requests to the login page.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2014.1.3, update to version 2014.1.3 or later. For versions 2014.2.x prior to 2014.2.1, update to version 2014.2.1 or later.

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8124

RHSA-2015:0839

RHSA-2015:0845

SUSE-RU-2015:0410-1

Affected Products

Openstack Dashboard

References · 17

• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8124 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8124 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8124 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0845.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147520.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cveNotify/162289 · Telegram Post
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61186 · Note