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CVE-2014-8750
Race condition in the VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2 before 2014.2rc1 allows remote authenticated…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1357372 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 60227 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1689 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1782 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1781 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141014 [OSSA 2014-035] Nova VMware driver may connect VNC to another tenant's console (CVE-2014-8750) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [openstack-announce] 20141014 [OSSA 2014-035] Nova VMware driver may connect VNC to another tenant's console (CVE-2014-8750) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 70182 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-8581 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2014-8750)Record last updated .