CVE-2014-8750: Openstack Nova

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openstack Nova: from 2014.1, before 2014.1.4 (fixed in 2014.1.4); version 2014.2 only

Published 2014-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.