Cross-site scripting (XSS) in Openstack Horizon - CVE-2017-7400
Published: May 31, 2017 / Updated: June 1, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU6849
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7400
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote authenticated administrators to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by incorrect filtration of input data passed via a crafted federation mapping. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim’s browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Openstack Horizon
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Red Hat OpenStack
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Red Hat OpenStack
How to mitigate CVE-2017-7400
Update to the latest version.