CVE-2014-5247: Spi-Inc Ganeti

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The _UpgradeBeforeConfigurationChange function in lib/client/gnt_cluster.py in Ganeti 2.10.0 before 2.10.7 and 2.11.0 before 2.11.5 uses world-readable permissions for the configuration backup file, which allows local users to obtain SSL keys, remote API credentials, and other sensitive information by reading the file, related to the upgrade command.

Affected products

  • Spi-Inc Ganeti: version 2.10.0 only; version 2.10.1 only; version 2.10.2 only; version 2.10.3 only; version 2.10.4 only; version 2.10.5 only; …

Published 2014-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.