PYSEC-2026-883

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    PYSEC-2026-883

    Published: 6 Jul 2026Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary: OpenStack Compute (Nova) has Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0259, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0790, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0843, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0844, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0259, https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190112, https://opendev.org/openstack/nova, http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-March/000341.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html, https://pypi.org/project/nova, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x8xr-rm9r-7mvf

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nova

    Purl: pkg:pypi/nova

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2014.1.4

    Affected versions

    15.1.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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