Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8124

Title: Openstack Horizon Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8124.

CWE Category CWE-400

Published Date Dec 12, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8124: OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) before 2014.1.3 and 2014.2.x before 2014.2.1 does not properly handle session records when using a db or memcached session engine, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of requests to the login page.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

vmware 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147520.html http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0845.html http://secunia.com/advisories/61186 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147520.html http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-December/000308.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0839.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0845.html http://secunia.com/advisories/61186 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1394370

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8124 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 12, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.