Vulnerability in Openstack Nova

CVE-2014-8750

Race condition in the VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2 before 2014.2rc1 allows remote authenticated users to access unintended consoles by spawning an instance that triggers the same VNC port to be alloc…

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.009 (76.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Openstack Nova — versions 2014.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
60227 (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
RHSA-2014:1689 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
RHSA-2014:1782 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
RHSA-2014:1781 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
[oss-security] 20141014 [OSSA 2014-035] Nova VMware driver may connect VNC to another tenant's console (CVE-2014-8750) (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
[openstack-announce] 20141014 [OSSA 2014-035] Nova VMware driver may connect VNC to another tenant's console (CVE-2014-8750) (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
70182 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)