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CVE-2014-0042

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0042 describes a vulnerability in OpenStack Heat Templates, specifically in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, where GPG signature checking is disabled for certain templates. This flaw allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and could lead to unauthorized package installation, impacting system integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0147 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-heat-templates-0:0-0.3.20140407git.el6ost
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0042Low

openstack-heat-templates: setting gpgcheck=0 for signed packages

Jan 9, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0579.html
Vendor Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net / heat-templates/+bug/1267635
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / openstack/heat-templates/commit/65a4f8bebc72da71c616e2e378b7b1ac354db1a3
ExploitPatch