Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenStack Swift 1.11.0 through 1.13.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the WWW-Authenticate header.

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

  - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenStack Swift 1.11.0 through 1.13.1 allows remote attackers
    to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the WWW-Authenticate header. (CVE-2014-3497)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0941 advisory.

    OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) provides object storage in virtual     containers, which allows users to store and retrieve files (arbitrary     data).

    It was found that Swift did not escape all HTTP header values, allowing     data to be injected into the responses sent from the Swift server. This     could lead to cross-site scripting attacks (and possibly other impacts) if     a user were tricked into clicking on a malicious URL. (CVE-2014-3497)

    Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue.
    Upstream acknowledges the Globo.com Security Team as the original reporter.

    All users of openstack-swift are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which correct this issue. After installing this update, the     OpenStack Object Storage services will be restarted automatically.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2256-1 advisory.

    John Dickinson discovered that Swift did not properly quote the WWW-Authenticate header value. If a user     were tricked into navigating to a malicious Swift URL, an attacker could conduct cross-site scripting     attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output     during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal     confidential data, within the same domain.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
411254	SCA: security update for swift (GHSA-66vj-393f-hxfv)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
411254	SCA: security update for swift (GHSA-66vj-393f-hxfv)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
193830	RHEL 7 : openstack-swift (RHSA-2014:0941)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
76251	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Swift vulnerability (USN-2256-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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