CVE-2026-43002

OpenStack Horizon Session Storage Exhaustion Vulnerability

Published May 5, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Horizon 25.6 and 25.7 before 25.7.3. There is a write operation to the session storage backend before authentication and thus storage can be exhausted by unauthenticated requests. This is a regression of the CVE-2014-8124 fix.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vxvf-xvm3-p8j5 OpenStack Horizon has Incorrect Behavior Order
History
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Title OpenStack Horizon Session Storage Exhaustion Vulnerability
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description An issue was discovered in OpenStack Horizon 25.6 and 25.7 before 25.7.3. There is a write operation to the session storage backend before authentication and thus storage can be exhausted by unauthenticated requests. This is a regression of the CVE-2014-8124 fix.
First Time appeared Openstack
Openstack horizon
Weaknesses CWE-696
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:openstack:horizon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Openstack
Openstack horizon
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
May 6, 2026, 6:05 AM
Reserved
May 1, 2026, 12:00 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
May 5, 2026, 5:17 PM
Modified
Sep 10, 2026, 9:22 PM