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OpenStack Horizon Session Fixation

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 21, 2024

Package

pip horizon (pip)

Affected versions

< 8.0.0a0

Patched versions

8.0.0a0

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) folsom-1 and 2012.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the sessionid cookie.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 5, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jan 12, 2024
Last updated Nov 21, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(86th percentile)

Weaknesses

Session Fixation

Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2012-2144

GHSA ID

GHSA-w7h9-8wr4-hwqh

Source code

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