Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-3219

Title: Openstack Horizon Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-3219.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Aug 20, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.76%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-3219: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Orchestration/Stack section in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) 2014.2 before 2014.2.4 and 2015.1.x before 2015.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the description parameter in a heat template, which is not properly handled in the help_text attribute in the Field class.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 1

vmware 1

Reference Links

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-June/000361.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1679.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3617 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/09/7 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75109 https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1453074 http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2015-June/000361.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1679.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3617 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/09/7 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75109 https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1453074

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-3219 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.

August 20, 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.