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CVE-2014-7968

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7968 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Red Hat Virtual Desktop Service Manager (VDSM) where remote attackers can block connections by maintaining open SSL connections. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, potentially leading to a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtual_desktop_service_manager:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0159 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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 0.4 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.14.18-4.el6ev
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.14.18-4.el7ev
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV Manager version 3.4Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.14.18-4.el6ev
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7968Moderate

vdsm: ssl_accept may block connections on uncompleted handshake

Oct 2, 2014

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/10/08/16
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/10/08/18
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/10/08/6