MEDIUM

GHSA-x8xr-rm9r-7mvf

OpenStack Compute (Nova) has Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / nova

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 2014.1.4

Fix pip install --upgrade 'nova>=2014.1.4'

PyPI / nova

Introduced in: 2014.2.0 Fixed in: 2014.2.3

Fix pip install --upgrade 'nova>=2014.2.3'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0259 [ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0790 [WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0843 [WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0844 [WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0259 [WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142 [WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190112 [WEB]
https://opendev.org/openstack/nova [PACKAGE]
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-March/000341.html [WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html [WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html [WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html [WEB]