Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8750

Title: Openstack Nova Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8750.

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date Oct 15, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.03%

Vulnerability Summary

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 users to access unintended consoles by spawning an instance that triggers the same VNC port to be allocated to two different instances.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

panic 1

Reference Links

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000293.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1689.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html http://secunia.com/advisories/60227 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/14/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70182 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1357372 http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-October/000293.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1689.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1781.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1782.html http://secunia.com/advisories/60227 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/14/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70182 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1357372

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8750 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.

October 15, 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:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.