CVE-2014-7960

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7960 describes a vulnerability in OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) versions prior to 2.2.0, where authenticated users can bypass metadata limits by submitting multiple crafted requests that collectively exceed the allowed constraints. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a medium severity, and allows for partial integrity impact with low attack complexity, requiring authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:openstack:swift::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

2.9

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

3.02%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

86.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0302 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 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 (44)

pippatch availablevia ghsa

Product: swiftFixed in: 2.2.0

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Native Client for RHEL 5 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.7.1-11.el5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.7.1-11.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-4.el6ost

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-4.el7ost

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: augeas-0:1.0.0-10.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: check-mk-0:1.2.6p1-3.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: clufter-0:0.11.2-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: cluster-0:3.0.12.1-73.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: clustermon-0:0.16.2-31.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: corosync-0:1.4.7-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ctdb2.5-0:2.5.5-7.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: fence-virt-0:0.2.3-19.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.7.1-11.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: gluster-nagios-addons-0:0.2.4-4.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: gluster-nagios-common-0:0.2.0-1.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: gstatus-0:0.64-3.1.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: libqb-0:0.17.1-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: libtalloc-0:2.1.1-4.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: libvirt-0:0.10.2-54.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: nagios-plugins-0:1.4.16-12.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: nagios-server-addons-0:0.2.1-4.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: nfs-ganesha-0:2.2.0-5.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: nrpe-0:2.15-4.1.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openais-0:1.1.1-7.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-swift-0:1.13.1-4.el6ost

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: pacemaker-0:1.1.12-8.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: pcs-0:0.9.139-9.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: pnp4nagios-0:0.6.22-2.1.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: pynag-0:0.9.1-1.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: python-blivet-1:1.0.0.2-1.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: python-cpopen-0:1.3-4.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: python-eventlet-0:0.14.0-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: python-greenlet-0:0.4.2-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: python-keystoneclient-1:0.9.0-5.el6ost

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: python-prettytable-0:0.7.2-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: python-pyudev-0:0.15-2.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: redhat-storage-logos-0:60.0.20-1.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: redhat-storage-server-0:3.1.0.3-1.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: resource-agents-0:3.9.5-24.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ricci-0:0.16.2-81.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: userspace-rcu-0:0.7.9-2.el6rhs

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.16.20-1.2.el6rhs

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: openstack-swift

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-g6x3-55qv-x6p2medium

OpenStack Swift metadata constraints are not correctly enforced

redhatCVE-2014-7960Moderate

openstack-swift: Swift metadata constraints are not correctly enforced

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00025.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0835.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0836.html

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1495.html

bugs.launchpad.net / swift/+bug/1365350

Vendor Advisory

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/96901

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/10/07/39

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/10/08/7

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

securityfocus.com / bid/70279

ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2704-1