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Fencer Intel
medium 4.3

CVE-2014-0040 json

OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, uses an HTTP connection to download…

published 2014-06-02 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-0137

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, uses an HTTP connection to download (1) packages and (2) signing keys from Yum repositories, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to prevent updates via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • openstack-heat-templates openstack 4 0-0.3.20140407git.el6ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0579

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-0040 updated cvss 2.6

openstack-heat-templates: use of HTTP to download signing keys/code

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 openstack-heat-templates 0-0.3.20140407git.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0579

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.