5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.018 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.1%
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.
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | the fix for CVE-2014-8124 introduced a regression, which is fixed here: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/142737/ |
seth-arnold | The python-django-openstack-auth regression fix is currently only included in the wily package (2015-5-14) – however, no one has complained and testing hasn’t demonstrated any problems. horizon in precise does not appear to take the operations that auto- instantiated django sessions in the newer releases; it looks safe. |