CVE-2014-8124

OpenStack Horizon 2014.1-2014.1.2 and 2014.2 - Denial of Service via Login Page Session Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

OpenStack 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.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/61186
Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0845.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147520.html
Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0086
EPSS Percentile 75.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (4)
fedoraproject/fedora 21
openstack/horizon 2014.1 - 2014.1.3
opensuse/opensuse 13.1
oracle/solaris 11.2
Published Dec 12, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026