RHSA-2017:1739 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python-django-horizon is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) provides administrators and users with a graphical interface to access, provision, and automate cloud-based resources.

Security Fix(es):

• A cross-site scripting flaw was discovered in the OpenStack dashboard (horizon) which allowed remote authenticated administrators to conduct XSS attacks using a crafted federation mapping rule. For this flaw to be exploited, federation mapping must be enabled in the dashboard. (CVE-2017-7400)

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 9 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1439626 - CVE-2017-7400 python-django-horizon: XSS in federation mappings UI
• BZ - 1457745 - Can not choose flavor in dashboard if glance.min_disk > flavor.disk

CVEs

• CVE-2017-7400

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low