CVE-2012-3540: Openstack Horizon

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Open redirect vulnerability in views/auth_forms.py in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) Essex (2012.1) allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the next parameter to auth/login/. NOTE: this issue was originally assigned CVE-2012-3542 by mistake.

Affected products

• Openstack Horizon: version 2012.1 only

Published 2012-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.