CVE-2014-8750

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.

Published: 2014-10-15 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-8750 is rated Moderate Risk (54.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.03%). EPSS rose +1.10% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-8750

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.93% 2.03% +1.10%
2 2025-12-14 1.34% 0.93% -0.41%
3 2025-03-31 — 1.34% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-8750

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-8750

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-8750

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2014-8750 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (nova), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8750
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8750
suse medium CVE-2014-8750 severity moderate: SUSE including 28 source package names (openstack-nova-12.0.2~a0~dev18-1.3, openstack-nova-2014.1.4.dev49-0.7.1, …), 28 product×package rows across 2 product lines (SUSE OpenStack Cloud 4, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6): Fixed 28. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8750/
ubuntu negligible CVE-2014-8750 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nova), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic): DNE 2, ignored 1, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8750

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-8750

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
openstack nova >= 2014.1, < 2014.1.4 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack nova 2014.2 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2014.2:milestone1:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack nova 2014.2 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2014.2:milestone2:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack nova 2014.2 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:2014.2:milestone3:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-8750

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