CVE-2014-0042
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, sets gpgcheck to 0 for certain templates, which disables GPG signature checking on downloaded packages and allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | openstack | 4.0 | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059520
- https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059520
- https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.