OpenStack Horizon could help expose sensitive information.
Thomas Biege discovered that the Horizon authentication mechanism did not validate the next parameter. An attacker could use this to construct a link to legitimate OpenStack web dashboard that redirected the user to a malicious website after authentication.
13 September 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
OpenStack Horizon could help expose sensitive information.
Thomas Biege discovered that the Horizon authentication mechanism did not validate the next parameter. An attacker could use this to construct a link to legitimate OpenStack web dashboard that redirected the user to a malicious website after authentication.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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