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Red Hat OpenStack 9.0: RHSA-2016-2117-01 Moderate XSS in Manila UI

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2016
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A crucial update for openstack-manila-ui mitigates a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0, enhancing overall system security.
An update for openstack-manila-ui is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)

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's File Share Service (manila) provides the means to easily provision shared file systems that can be consumed by multiple instances. These shared file systems are provisioned from pre-existing, back-end volumes. The UI component provides the dashboard plugin for the service.
Security Fix(es):
* A cross-site scripting flaw was discovered in openstack-manila-ui's Metadata field contained in its "Create Share" form. A user could inject malicious HTML/JavaScript code that would then be reflected in the "Shares" overview. Remote, authenticated, but unprivileged users could exploit this vulnerability to steal session cookies and escalate their privileges. (CVE-2016-6519)
Red Hat would like to thank SUSE for reporting this issue. SUSE acknowledges Niklaus Schiess as the original reporter.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update XSS cross-site scripting Red Hat OpenStack OpenStack Manila UI

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6519 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0:
Source: openstack-manila-ui-2.1.0-2.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-manila-ui-2.1.0-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2117-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2117.html
Issue date: 2016-10-26

Topic

An update for openstack-manila-ui is now available for Red Hat OpenStackPlatform 9.0 (Mitaka).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update XSS cross-site scripting Red Hat OpenStack OpenStack Manila UI

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1375147 - CVE-2016-6519 openstack-manila-ui: persistent XSS in metadata field

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