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

Description

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.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
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Published (advisory)
2022-05-14 02:09:21 UTC
Updated
2025-04-13 23:13:50 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2023-02-08 18:04:43 UTC
NVD published
2014-04-15

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.26% 49.74%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
5.1 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and stable.
Attack requirements (AT:N)
No additional preconditions are required beyond normal reachability.
Privileges required (PR:L)
Low privileges are required.
User interaction (UI:P)
A user has to participate (for example click/open/approve).
Vulnerable system confidentiality impact (VC:N)
No confidentiality impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system integrity impact (VI:N)
No integrity impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability impact (VA:N)
No availability impact on the vulnerable system.
Subsequent system confidentiality impact (SC:L)
Limited confidentiality impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system integrity impact (SI:L)
Limited integrity impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system availability impact (SA:N)
No availability impact on subsequent systems.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
pip horizon >= 2013.2, < 2013.2.4 2013.2.4

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence