MEDIUM 6.0

PYSEC-2026-2519

OpenStack Horizon RC file generation does not escape special characters in project names

Details

OpenStack Horizon before 25.7.4 produces scripts for OpenStack RC file downloading that may have a crafted project name with shell metacharacters. NOTE: some parties consider this a security hardening opportunity to address certain types of user error, not a vulnerability.

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Affected packages

PyPI / horizon

Introduced in: 0

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55748 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/openstack/horizon [PACKAGE]
https://launchpad.net/bugs/2152240 [WEB]
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0097 [WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/horizon [PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6wrm-x65g-hr4p [ADVISORY]