CVE-2014-8750

medium
Published 2014-10-15 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Race condition in the VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2 before 2014.2rc1 allows remote authenticated users to access unintended consoles by spawning an instance that triggers the same VNC port to be allocated to two different instances.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8750

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000293.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8750.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openstacknova{"startIncluding":"2014.1","endExcluding":"2014.1.4"}2014.1.4
openstacknova2014.2

References

CWEs

CWE-362

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.