Session fixation vulnerability in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) folsom-1 and 2012.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the sessionid cookie.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Session fixation vulnerability in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) folsom-1 and 2012.1 allows remote
    attackers to hijack web sessions via the sessionid cookie. (CVE-2012-2144)

Fixes session hijack vulnerability

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Matthias Weckbecker discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Horizon via the log viewer refrash mechanism. If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted log message, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents or steal confidential data within the same domain. (CVE-2012-2094)

Thomas Biege discovered a session fixation vulnerability in Horizon.
An attacker could exploit this to potentially allow access to unauthorized information and capabilities. (CVE-2012-2144).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
433537	SCA: security update for horizon (GHSA-w7h9-8wr4-hwqh)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
433537	SCA: security update for horizon (GHSA-w7h9-8wr4-hwqh)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical
59263	Fedora 17 : python-django-horizon-2012.1-3.fc17 (2012-7369)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
59033	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : horizon vulnerabilities (USN-1439-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2012-2144

critical

Tenable Plugins

critical

critical

medium

medium