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CVE-2015-3988 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) 2015.1.0 allow remote authenticated users to inject ar…

published 2015-05-19 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-4018

cvss
3.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) 2015.1.0 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the metadata to a (1) Glance image, (2) Nova flavor or (3) Host Aggregate.

Patch / fix

  • horizon Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2015.1.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3988

  • 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

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-2015-3988 updated cvss 4.3

python-django-horizon: persistent XSS in Horizon metadata dashboard

  • 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

1.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.