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PYSEC-2026-822

OpenStack Dashboard (aka Horizon) vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-822 — horizon: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'horizon>=2013.2.4'

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Horizon Orchestration dashboard in OpenStack Dashboard (aka Horizon) 2013.2 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the description field of a Heat template.

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Affected packages

PyPI/horizon

Introduced in: 2013.2Fixed in: 2013.2.4

Fixpip install --upgrade 'horizon>=2013.2.4'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0157[ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0581[WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0157[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082858[WEB]
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1289033[WEB]
https://opendev.org/openstack/horizon[PACKAGE]
https://web.archive.org/web/20200228185211/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66706[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00040.html[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/08/8[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/horizon[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cmg8-5c63-pg95[ADVISORY]