Vulnerability in horizon (CVE-2026-43002)
Summary
Vulnerability in horizon (CVE-2026-43002). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 25.7.3 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-43002 has been found in horizon.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10.
What to do: upgrade horizon to 25.7.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "horizon CVE-2026-43002" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-43002 (horizon) — CWE-696 / CVSS v3 5.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 25.7.3 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-696) exists in horizon.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of horizon.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 25.7.3.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'horizon' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'horizon' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
horizonを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade horizon to 25.7.3ステージング環境で 25.7.3 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43002 horizon Fixed in: 3:25.7.3-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43002 horizon
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- web bugs.launchpad.net
- web openwall.com
- web security.openstack.org
- web github.com