Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 15, 2014· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2014-8750

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.

Affected products

OpenStack/Nova4 versions
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=2014.1,<2014.1.4
- cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2014.2:milestone1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2014.2:milestone2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2014.2:milestone3:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000293.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1689.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/60227nvdThird Party Advisory
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/14/9nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/70182nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1357372nvdThird Party Advisory

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