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Plain-English summary
This flaw affects HP/HPE Helion Eucalyptus cloud software. An authenticated remote user could bypass intended access controls and modify other access key credentials or signing certificates if they know the relevant ID. That threatens credential integrity inside affected private cloud environments.
Executive priority
Prioritize remediation where Helion Eucalyptus manages sensitive workloads or cloud credentials. The issue requires authentication, but successful abuse could undermine credential trust and access boundaries in the cloud environment.
Technical view
CVE-2014-5040 covers HP Helion Eucalyptus 4.1.x before 4.1.2 and HPE Helion Eucalyptus 4.2.x before 4.2.1. The issue lets remote authenticated users modify arbitrary access key credentials using a key ID, or signing certificates using a certificate ID, bypassing intended restrictions.
Likely exposure
Exposure is likely limited to organizations running affected Helion Eucalyptus 4.1.x or 4.2.x deployments. The source bundle does not identify specific CPEs, deployment roles, or default exposure conditions.
Exploitation context
The provided sources describe remote authenticated abuse, not unauthenticated exploitation. The bundle marks KEV as false and provides no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit activity.
Researcher notes
The source data lacks CVSS, CWE, exploit status, and detailed vendor mitigation text beyond fixed version boundaries. Analysis should stay scoped to authenticated credential and certificate modification in the named Helion Eucalyptus versions.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade HP Helion Eucalyptus 4.1.x to 4.1.2 or later.
- Upgrade HPE Helion Eucalyptus 4.2.x to 4.2.1 or later.
- Review HPE and Eucalyptus advisory guidance for environment-specific actions.
- Investigate and rotate credentials or certificates if unauthorized modification is suspected.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Helion Eucalyptus versions across all cloud controller environments.
- Confirm no 4.1.x version remains below 4.1.2.
- Confirm no 4.2.x version remains below 4.2.1.
- Review audit logs for unexpected access key or signing certificate changes.
- Validate privileged user access is limited to intended administrators.
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- Unknown
- CVSS
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- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04926463CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://www.eucalyptus.com/resources/security/advisories/esa-32CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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