Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 2, 2014· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2014-0042

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.

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Affected products

Red Hat/Openstack
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
OpenStack/Tripleo Heat Templatesllm-fuzzy

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3nvdExploitPatch
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd

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