Vulnerability CVE-2014-8124
Published: 2014-12-12

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.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Openstack 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Openstack -> Horizon 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147520.html
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0845.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370
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