CVE-2014-3473 Horizon-Orchestration Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability through resource name

What is CVE-2014-3473?

CVE-2014-3473 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 31 Oct 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Orchestration/Stack section in the Horizon Orchestration dashboard in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) before 2013.2.4, 2014.1 before 2014.1.2, and Juno before Juno-2, when used with Heat, allows remote Orchestration template owners or catalogs to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted template.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3473?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including horizon. It affects 2 products.

Products include Openstack Horizon, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3473?

Upgrade horizon to 8.0.0a0 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2014-3473 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3473 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse

• CVE-2012-2144 OpenStack Horizon Session Fixation Medium 6.8
• CVE-2022-45582 Horizon Web Dashboard Open Redirect vulnerability Medium 6.1
• CVE-2026-55748 OpenStack Horizon RC file generation does not escape special characters in project names Medium 6.0
• CVE-2012-3540 Open redirect in n/a Medium 5.8
• CVE-2013-4471 Auth bypass in n/a Medium 5.5

All Opensuse Opensuse vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3473, GHSA-8vwv-2v7v-jmgr, PYSEC-2026-642, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3473.