CVE-2015-0259

critical

Description

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.

References

Advisories
More

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-March/000341.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-04-01

Updated: 2026-05-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00215