CVE-2014-0042

high

Description

OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, sets gpgcheck to 0 for certain templates, which disables GPG signature checking on downloaded packages and allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059520

https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-06-02

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High