CVE-2015-0259: Openstack Nova

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4, 2014.2.x before 2014.2.3, and kilo before kilo-3 does not validate the origin of websocket requests, which allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for access to consoles via a crafted webpage.

Affected products

• Openstack Nova: from 2014.1, before 2014.1.4 (fixed in 2014.1.4); from 2014.2, before 2014.2.3 (fixed in 2014.2.3); version 2015.1.0 only

Published 2015-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.