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TI-2015-02848 Aliases CVE-2015-3219GHSA-rhjj-f6gq-6gx2

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Orchestration/Stack section in OpenStack…

Priority LOW 26CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Medium
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Partial · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.03196 88th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed horizon (PyPI): 8.0.0a0Red Hat: 1 advisory

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
—horizon (PyPI)before 8.0.0a08.0.0a0Patch availableGHSA-rhjj-f6gq-6gx2
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • horizon (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 8.0.0a0 Fixed in 8.0.0a0 Patch available GHSA-rhjj-f6gq-6gx2

CPE configurations NVD · 7

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*8.0VulnerableDebian
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2014.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2014.2.0VulnerableOpenStack
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2014.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2014.2.1VulnerableOpenStack
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2014.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2014.2.2VulnerableOpenStack
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2014.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2014.2.3VulnerableOpenStack
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2015.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2015.1.0VulnerableOpenStack
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*11.2VulnerableOracle
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 8.0 Vulnerable ·Debian
  • cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2014.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2014.2.0 Vulnerable ·OpenStack
  • cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2014.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2014.2.1 Vulnerable ·OpenStack
  • cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2014.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2014.2.2 Vulnerable ·OpenStack
  • cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2014.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2014.2.3 Vulnerable ·OpenStack
  • cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:2015.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2015.1.0 Vulnerable ·OpenStack
  • cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 11.2 Vulnerable ·Oracle

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-rhjj-f6gq-6gx2 horizon (PyPI) Fixed in 8.0.0a0 Advisory →

Red Hat 1 advisory

  • RHSA-2015:1679 Released 2015-08-24 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    python-django-horizon security and bug fix update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 openstack-dashboard-2014.2.3-7.el7ost, openstack-dashboard-theme-2014.2.3-7.el7ost, python-django-horizon-2014.2.3-7.el7ost +1

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed RHSA-2015:1679
Not affected: 3 products
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2015-3219
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rhjj-f6gq-6gx2

References

Exploit 1

Patch 2

Advisory 4

Other 5

Sources

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