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CVE-2015-0259 (GCVE-0-2015-0259)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-04-01 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:03
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-an… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2015-03-13 00:00
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