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CVE-2015-0259

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-345

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4, 2014.2.x before 2014.2.3, and kilo before kilo-3 does not validate the origin of websocket requests, which allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for access to consoles via a crafted webpage.

Affected products

• OpenStack Nova: from 2014.1 before 2014.1.4; from 2014.2 before 2014.2.3; 2015.1.0-milestone1, 2015.1.0-milestone2 — fixed in 2014.1.4, 2014.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Nova 2014.1.4, 2014.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-March/000341.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-March/000341.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142

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