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CVE-2014-8177

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CVE-2014-8177 describes a bypass vulnerability in the Red Hat gluster-swift package, affecting Red Hat Gluster Storage and related products. Authenticated remote attackers can circumvent the max_meta_count constraint by submitting multiple crafted requests that collectively exceed the limit. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and could lead to high integrity impact, though confidentiality and availability are not affected. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:gluster_storage_management_console:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:gluster_storage_server:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:storage_native_client:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0153 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (25)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.7.1-16.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 7 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.7.1-16.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: gdeploy-0:1.0-12.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.7.1-16.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: gluster-nagios-addons-0:0.2.5-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: gluster-nagios-common-0:0.2.2-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: gstatus-0:0.65-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: nagios-server-addons-0:0.2.2-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: nfs-ganesha-0:2.2.0-9.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-6.el6ost
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: redhat-storage-server-0:3.1.1.0-2.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: swiftonfile-0:1.13.1-5.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.16.20-1.3.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: gdeploy-0:1.0-12.el7rhgs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.7.1-16.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: gluster-nagios-addons-0:0.2.5-1.el7rhgs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: gluster-nagios-common-0:0.2.2-1.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: gstatus-0:0.65-1.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: nagios-server-addons-0:0.2.2-1.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: nfs-ganesha-0:2.2.0-9.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-6.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: redhat-storage-server-0:3.1.1.0-2.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: swiftonfile-0:1.13.1-5.el7rhgs
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.16.20-1.3.el7rhgs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.7.1-16.el7
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-8177Moderate

gluster-swift metadata constraints are not correctly enforced

Aug 21, 2015

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1845.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1846.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/5