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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...

6.5 MediumFix available

CVE-2014-8750 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Openstack Nova, published October 15, 2014. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.03%, the 81st percentile. Fixed in openstack-nova 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost.

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.

Exploit likelihood

2.03%Up 0.7 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2014-8750
CVSS 2.0
6.5 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2014-8750
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2014-8581 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2014-8581
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-2pcw-fgm2-4xh2 No score

Race condition in the VMware driver in OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4 and 2014.2 before...

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.

Record
GHSA-2pcw-fgm2-4xh2
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:0324-1 No score

Security update for openstack-nova

This update for openstack-nova provides stability fixes from the upstream OpenStack project:

* Add @retry_on_deadlock to _instance_update()
* Fix nova-compute start issue after evacuate
* Fix nova evacuate issues for RBD
* Add _wrap_db_error() support to SessionTransaction.commit()
* Fixes DoS issue in instance list ip filter (bnc#903013,
  CVE-2014-3708)
* Make the block device mapping retries configurable
* Retry on closing of luks encrypted volume in case device is busy
* Nova api service doesn't handle SIGHUP properly
* Fix XML UnicodeEncode serialization error
* share neutron admin auth tokens
* Fix CellStateManagerFile init to failure
* postgresql: use postgres db instead of template1
* Fix instance cross AZ check when attaching volumes
* Fixes missing ec2 api address disassociate error on failure
* Ignore errors when deleting non-existing vifs
* VMware: validate that VM exists on backend prior to deletion
* VMWare: Fix VM leak when deletion of VM during resizing
* Sync process utils from oslo
* VMware: prevent race condition with VNC port allocation (bnc#901087,
  CVE-2014-8750)
* Fixes Hyper-V volume mapping issue on reboot
* Raise descriptive error for over volume quota
* libvirt: Handle unsupported host capabilities
* libvirt: Make fakelibvirt.libvirtError match
* Adds tests for Hyper-V VM Utils
* Removes unnecessary instructions in test_hypervapi
* Fixes a Hyper-V list_instances localization issue
* Adds list_instance_uuids to the Hyper-V driver
* Add _wrap_db_error() support to Session.commit()
* Sync process and str utils from oslo (bnc#899190 CVE-2014-7230
  CVE-2014-7231)
* Fixes Hyper-V agent force_hyperv_utils_v1 flag issue
* Fix live-migration failure in FC multipath case
* libvirt: Save device_path in connection_info when booting from volume
* Fixes Hyper-V boot from volume root device issue
* Catch missing Glance image attrs with None
* Adds get_instance_disk_info to compute drivers
* Include next link when default limit is reached
* VM in rescue state must have a restricted set of actions to avoid
  leaking rescued images (bnc#899199, CVE-2014-3608)
* libvirt: return the correct instance path while cleanup_resize
* Fix nova image-show with queued image
* _translate_from_glance() can cause an unnecessary HTTP request
* Neutron: Atomic update of instance info cache
* Ensure info cache updates don't overwhelm cells
* remove test_multiprocess_api
* Fixes Hyper-V resize down exception
* libvirt: Use VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_LIVE for paused instances
* Fix _parse_datetime in simple tenant usage extension
* Avoid traceback logs from simple tenant usage extension
* Made unassigned networks visible in flat networking
* VMware: validate that VM exists on backend prior to deletion
  (bnc#898371)
* Fix attaching config drive issue on Hyper-V when migrate instances
* Do not fail cell's instance deletion, if it's missing info_cache
* Fixes Hyper-V vm state issue
* Update block_device_info to contain swap and ephemeral disks
* Loosen import_exceptions to cover all of gettextutils
* Fix instance boot when Ceph is used for ephemeral storage
* VMware: do not cache image when root_gb is 0
* Delete image when backup operation failed on snapshot step
* db: Add @_retry_on_deadlock to service_update()
* Fix rootwrap for non openstack.org iqn's
* Add Hyper-V driver in the 'compute_driver' option description
* Block sqlalchemy migrate 0.9.2 as it breaks all of nova
* Move the error check for 'brctl addif'
* Add a retry_on_deadlock to reservations_expire
* Add expire reservations in backport position
* Make floatingip-ip-delete atomic with neutron
* add repr for event objects
* make lifecycle event logs more clear
* Fix race condition with vif…
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:0324-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
openstack-nova
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-api
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-cells
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-cert
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-common
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-compute
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-conductor
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-console
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-doc
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-network
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
openstack-nova-novncproxy
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-objectstore
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova-scheduler
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
python-nova
Red Hat:openstack:4::el6
before 0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
0:2013.2.4-2.el6ost
openstack-nova
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-api
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-cells
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-cert
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-common
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-compute
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-conductor
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-console
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-doc
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-network
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-novncproxy
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-objectstore
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova-scheduler
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
python-nova
Red Hat:openstack:5::el6
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el6ost
openstack-nova
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-api
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-cells
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-cert
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-common
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-compute
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-conductor
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-console
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-doc
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-network
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-novncproxy
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-objectstore
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
openstack-nova-scheduler
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
python-nova
Red Hat:openstack:5::el7
before 0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost
0:2014.1.3-4.el7ost

History

History
WhenChangedSources
2026-11-03aliasesEUVD
2026-11-02createdCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

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