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TI-2014-00038 Aliases CVE-2014-0040GHSA-m883-qh5j-9hj8

OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack…

Priority LOW 23Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Medium
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Partial · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, uses an HTTP connection to download (1) packages and (2) signing keys from Yum repositories, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to prevent updates via unspecified vectors.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01466 73rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed Red Hat: 1 advisory

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*4.0VulnerableRed Hat
  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 4.0 Vulnerable ·Red Hat

Remediation

Red Hat 1 advisory

  • RHSA-2014:0579 Released 2014-05-29 · Red Hat rating Low
    openstack-heat-templates security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 openstack-heat-templates-0-0.3.20140407git.el6ost

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0Fixed RHSA-2014:0579

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2014-0040
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m883-qh5j-9hj8

References

Exploit 1

Advisory 1

Other 2

  • TI-2016-05707 Oracle MySQL through 5.5.52, 5.6.x through 5.6.33, and 5.7.x through 5.7.15; MariaDB… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-07980 Memory Corruption was discovered in the cmsgpack library in the Lua subsystem in Redis… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2020-07599 Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.20 to 2.4.43. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-06950 Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2018-15768 Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-06949 Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a reset flood, potentially leading to a… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
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Sources

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