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PYSEC-2026-883
OpenStack Compute (Nova) has Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
Quick fix
PYSEC-2026-883 — nova: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'nova>=2014.1.4'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
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]
- https://pypi.org/project/nova[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x8xr-rm9r-7mvf[ADVISORY]