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Red Hat OpenStack Platform 5.0 Critical Update: XSS Fix RHSA-2016:1268-01

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The latest Red Hat advisory emphasizes critical security flaws in python-django-horizon, specifically XSS vulnerabilities requiring prompt action to address them
An update for python-django-horizon is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) provides administrators and users with a graphical interface to access, provision, and automate cloud-based resources.
Security Fix(es):
* A DOM-based, cross-site scripting vulnerability was found in the OpenStack dashboard, where user input was not filtered correctly. An authenticated dashboard user could exploit the flaw by injecting an AngularJS template into a dashboard form (for example, using an image's description), triggering the vulnerability when another user browsed the affected page. As a result, this flaw could result in user accounts being compromised (for example, user-access credentials being stolen). (CVE-2016-4428)
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Beth Lancaster (Virginia Tech) and Brandon Sawyers(Virginia Tech) as the original reporters.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4428 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6:
Source: python-django-horizon-2014.1.5-4.el6ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-dashboard-2014.1.5-4.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-dashboard-theme-2014.1.5-4.el6ost.noarch.rpm python-django-horizon-2014.1.5-4.el6ost.noarch.rpm python-django-horizon-doc-2014.1.5-4.el6ost.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1268-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1268
Issue date: 2016-06-21

Topic

An update for python-django-horizon is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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security advisory security issue red hat important xss openstack python-django-horizon

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1343982 - CVE-2016-4428 python-django-horizon: XSS in client side template

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