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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.7

CVE-2018-14620 json

The OpenStack RabbitMQ container image insecurely retrieves the rabbitmq_clusterer component over HTTP during the build stage.

published 2018-09-10 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-6527

cvss
4.7
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The OpenStack RabbitMQ container image insecurely retrieves the rabbitmq_clusterer component over HTTP during the build stage. This could potentially allow an attacker to serve malicious code to the image builder and install in the resultant container image. Version of openstack-rabbitmq-container and openstack-containers as shipped with Red Hat Openstack 12, 13, 14 are believed to be vulnerable.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-14620 updated cvss 4.7

openstack-rabbitmq-container: Insecure download of rabbitmq_clusterer during docker build

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 rhosp12/openstack-base 12.0-20180910.1, rhosp12/openstack-cron 12.0-20180910.1, rhosp12/openstack-etcd 12.0-20180910.1, rhosp12/openstack-redis 12.0-20180910.1, rhosp12/openstack-zaqar 12.0-20180910.1, rhosp12/openstack-iscsid 12.0-20180910.1, +93 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2729
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 rhosp13/openstack-base 13.0-84, rhosp13/openstack-cron 13.0-60, rhosp13/openstack-etcd 13.0-54, rhosp13/openstack-redis 13.0-58, rhosp13/openstack-zaqar 13.0-57, rhosp13/openstack-iscsid 13.0-54, +103 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2721
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) openstack-rabbitmq-container
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Red Hat openstack-rabbitmq-container

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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