Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Orchestration/Stack section in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) 2014.2 before 2014.2.4 and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the description parameter in a heat template, which is not properly handled in the help_text attribute in the Field class.

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

  - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Orchestration/Stack section in OpenStack Dashboard
    (Horizon) 2014.2 before 2014.2.4 and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary
    web script or HTML via the description parameter in a heat template, which is not properly handled in the
    help_text attribute in the Field class. (CVE-2015-3219)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1679 advisory.

    OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) provides administrators and users with a     graphical interface to access, provision, and automate cloud-based     resources.

    Two security issues were discovered in the Horizon dashboard and are     addressed in this update:

    * A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the Horizon Orchestration     dashboard. An attacker able to trick a Horizon user into using a malicious     template during the stack creation could use this flaw to perform an XSS     attack on that user. (CVE-2015-3219)

    Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack Project for reporting the     CVE-2015-3219 issue. Upstream acknowledges Nikita Konovalov from Mirantis     as the original reporter of CVE-2015-3219.

    * A flaw was discovered in the Horizon metadata dashboard whereby     potentially untrusted data was displayed from Glance images, Nova flavors,     or host aggregates without correct clean up. An attacker could use this     flaw to conduct an XSS attack.(CVE-2015-3988)

    Additionally, the following non-security issues are addressed:

    * It was impossible to associate a floating IP address to a port for an     instance. This occurred if the gateway router was not in the same tenant as     the instance but was attached to a network shared across tenants because     only ports within the tenant were used to find reachable gateway routers.
    (BZ#1187992)

    * If two or more regions were configured in Horizon, then the User, Help,     and Current Project links would no longer work and the region selector     was in the wrong location in the UI. (BZ#1189887)

    * A load balancer monitor was erroneously displayed as associated with     every tenant in every pool. The load balancer monitor was not actually     associated with any tenants, but the improper display prevented users     from using the Horizon dashboard to create a tenant association.
    (BZ#1196249)

    * When logging into the Horizon dashboard, Horizon sends a query to Nova to     update usage statistics. One of the calls would erroneously query deleted     virtual machines; if there were thousands of deleted virtual machines, the     CPU usage for Nova would spike and the Nova process could crash.
    (BZ#1243301)

    * The network profile was not supported by Cisco N1KV ML2 drivers. This     profile has been removed to maintain Horizon compatibility with the Cisco     driver. (BZ#1246690)

    * A neutron attribute extension was renamed from profile_id to profile for     networks and ports. This caused create operations for networks and ports to     fail from the dashboard since the dashboard was still using the attribute     name n1kv:profile_id rather than n1kv:profile.(BZ#1248367)

    * If a virtual machine instance failed to launch, then the stale port     assignments were left in the configuration rather than being cleaned up.
    (BZ#1249228)

    All python-django-horizon users are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which correct these issues.

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

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

Two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been found in Horizon, a web application to control an OpenStack cloud.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
434923	SCA: security update for horizon (GHSA-rhjj-f6gq-6gx2)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
434923	SCA: security update for horizon (GHSA-rhjj-f6gq-6gx2)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
194004	RHEL 7 : python-django-horizon (RHSA-2015:1679)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
91965	Debian DSA-3617-1 : horizon - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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