USN-2062-1: OpenStack Horizon vulnerability

20 December 2013

Horizon could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

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Releases

Packages

  • horizon - Web interface for OpenStack cloud infrastructure

Details

Chris Chapman discovered cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
in Horizon via the Volumes and Network Topology pages. An authenticated
attacker could exploit these to conduct stored cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks against users viewing these pages in order to modify the contents
or steal confidential data within the same domain.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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