What is CVE-2018-14620?

CVE-2018-14620 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openstack-Rabbitmq-Container, classified under Download of Code Without Integrity Check. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2018-09-10.

How severe is CVE-2018-14620?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Red Hat Openstack-Rabbitmq-Container

CVE-2018-14620

The OpenStack RabbitMQ container image insecurely retrieves the rabbitmq_clusterer component over HTTP during the build stage. This could potentially allow an attacker to serve malicious code to the image builder and install in the resultant container image. Version of openstack-rabbitmq-container and openstack-containers as shipped with Red Hat Openstack 12, 13, 14 are believed to be vulnerable.

Published 2018-09-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (46.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 46th percentile — 46.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Openstack-Rabbitmq-Container — versions 12, 13, 14
Red Hat OpenStack — versions 12, 13

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2729 (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2721 (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-14620?: CVE-2018-14620 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openstack-Rabbitmq-Container, classified under Download of Code Without Integrity Check. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2018-09-10.
How severe is CVE-2018-14620?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.