CVE-2015-0259 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Severity

51%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-04-01 14:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-11-16 15:07:00

Affected Software

OpenStack Nova

OpenStack Nova 2015.1.0 Milestone 1

2015.1.0

OpenStack Nova 2015.1.0 Milestone 2

2015.1.0

References

[openstack-announce] 20150313 [OSSA 2015-005] Nova console Cross-Site WebSocket hijacking (CVE-2015-0259)

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2015:0790

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2015:0843

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2015:0844

Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142

Third Party Advisory

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