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CVE-2014-8124 json

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 memc…

published 2014-12-12 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-7968

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • openstack horizon 2014.1.3, 2014.2.1
  • horizon Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2014.1.3-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8124

  • horizon Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8124

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • python-django-horizon openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el7ost
  • python-django-openstack-auth openstack 5 1.1.5-4.el7ost
  • openstack-dashboard openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el7ost
  • openstack-dashboard-theme openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el7ost
  • python-django-horizon openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el6ost
  • python-django-openstack-auth openstack 5 1.1.5-4.el6ost
  • openstack-dashboard openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el6ost
  • openstack-dashboard-theme openstack 5 2014.1.4-1.el6ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0839RHSA-2015:0845

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-2014-8124 updated cvss 4.3

python-django-horizon: denial of service via login page requests

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 python-django-horizon, python-django-openstack-auth
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 openstack-dashboard 2014.1.4-1.el6ost, python-django-horizon 2014.1.4-1.el6ost, openstack-dashboard-theme 2014.1.4-1.el6ost, python-django-openstack-auth 1.1.5-4.el6ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0845
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7 openstack-dashboard 2014.1.4-1.el7ost, python-django-horizon 2014.1.4-1.el7ost, openstack-dashboard-theme 2014.1.4-1.el7ost, python-django-openstack-auth 1.1.5-4.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0839
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) python-django-horizon, python-django-openstack-auth
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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.