CVE-2015-3219

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
OpenStack Horizon: 2014.2.0, 2014.2.1, 2014.2.2, 2014.2.3, 2015.1.0
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2

References

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-June/000361.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1679.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3617
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/09/7
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75109
https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1453074
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-June/000361.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1679.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3617
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/09/7
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html

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