CVE-2015-0259

Advisory

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.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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.


MLIST:[openstack-announce] 20150313 [OSSA 2015-005] Nova console Cross-Site WebSocket hijacking (CVE-2015-0259): http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-March/000341.html
CONFIRM:https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142
REDHAT:RHSA-2015:0790: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html
REDHAT:RHSA-2015:0843: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html
REDHAT:RHSA-2015:0844: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0259
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-March/000341.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html