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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-29565

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Horizon before 15.3.2, 16.x before 16.2.1, 17.x and 18.x before 18.3.3, 18.4.x, and 18.5.x. There is a lack of validation of the "next" parameter, which would allow someone to supply a malicious URL in Horizon that can cause an automatic redirect to the provided malicious URL.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:38 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-29565

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Dec 2020, 08:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Horizon before 15.3.2, 16.x before 16.2.1, 17.x and 18.x before 18.3.3, 18.4.x, and 18.5.x. There is a lack of validation of the "next" parameter, which would allow someone to supply a malicious URL in Horizon that can cause an automatic redirect to the provided malicious URL.

osv:CVE-2020-29565
Complete source record
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  "id": "025798a6b2a9ec97a3b0abfa25ff1dc9541c9e2a964255651ca8125be14bdce2",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-29565",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-29565",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in OpenStack Horizon before 15.3.2, 16.x before 16.2.1, 17.x and 18.x before 18.3.3, 18.4.x, and 18.5.x. There is a lack of validation of the \"next\" parameter, which would allow someone to supply a malicious URL in Horizon that can cause an automatic redirect to the provided malicious URL.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-29565",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-29565",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-29565",
        "GHSA-f8fh-xp28-q59m",
        "PYSEC-2020-45"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
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          ],
          "versions": [
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            "18.4.1",
            "18.4.0",
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            "18.3.1",
            "18.3.0",
            "18.2.0",
            "18.1.0",
            "16.1.0",
            "18.0.0",
            "17.1.0",
            "17.0.0",
            "16.0.0.0rc2",
            "16.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:21.150418188Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4820",
        "https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1865026",
        "https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/horizon/+/758841/",
        "https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/horizon/+/758843/",
        "https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2020-008.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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            ],
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                  },
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                ],
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              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430431,
  "published_at": "2020-12-04T08:15:11.143+00:00"
}