Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-0259

Title: Openstack Nova

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-0259.

CWE Category CWE-345

Published Date Apr 01, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-0259: OpenStack Compute (Nova) before 2014.1.4, 2014.2.x before 2014.2.3, and kilo before kilo-3 does not validate the origin of websocket requests, which allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for access to consoles via a crafted webpage.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

panic 1

Reference Links

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-March/000341.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142 http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-March/000341.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0790.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0843.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0844.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1409142

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-0259 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 01, 2015 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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.