Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2144

Title: Openstack Horizon

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-2144.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 05, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-2144: Session fixation vulnerability in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) folsom-1 and 2012.1 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the sessionid cookie.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

vmware 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/081173.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49024 http://secunia.com/advisories/49071 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1439-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/05/1 http://www.osvdb.org/81741 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53399 https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/978896 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75423 https://github.com/openstack/horizon/commit/041b1c44c7d6cf5429505067c32f8f35166a8bab http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/081173.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49024 http://secunia.com/advisories/49071 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1439-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/05/1 http://www.osvdb.org/81741 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53399 https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/978896 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75423 https://github.com/openstack/horizon/commit/041b1c44c7d6cf5429505067c32f8f35166a8bab

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2144 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 05, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.