VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-8750

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.03%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-10-15
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Primary references