CVE-2014-0040 — OpenStack Heat Templates (heat-templates), as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux O

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2014-06-02T15:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-06T08:58:26.545Z

09References

• bugs.launchpad.net — https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-templates/+bug/1267635
• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059514
• github.com — https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b…
• rhn.redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html