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CVE-2015-3219 json

OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-rhjj-f6gq-6gx2 , PYSEC-2015-40 , EUVD-2015-0022

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Orchestration/Stack section in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) 2014.2 before 2014.2.4 and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the description parameter in a heat template, which is not properly handled in the help_text attribute in the Field class.

Patch / fix

  • pypi horizon 8.0.0a0
  • horizon Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2015.1.0+2015.06.09.git15.e63af6c598-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3219

  • python-django-horizon openstack 6 2014.2.3-7.el7ost
  • openstack-dashboard openstack 6 2014.2.3-7.el7ost
  • openstack-dashboard-theme openstack 6 2014.2.3-7.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1679

  • openstack-dashboard OpenStack Cloud 5 2014.2.4~a0~dev12-13.2
  • python-django_openstack_auth OpenStack Cloud 5 1.1.7-11.3
  • crowbar-barclamp-nova_dashboard OpenStack Cloud 5 1.9+git.1443622531.b2b2939-9.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:2064-1

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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-2015-3219 updated cvss 4.3

python-django-horizon: XSS in Heat stack creation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 openstack-dashboard 2014.2.3-7.el7ost, python-django-horizon 2014.2.3-7.el7ost, openstack-dashboard-theme 2014.2.3-7.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1679
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) python-django-horizon Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) openstack-dashboard, python-django-horizon, openstack-dashboard-theme Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 python-django-horizon
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1453074 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi horizon
<8.0.0a0
8.0.0a0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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