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Unscored USN-2256-1 1 CVE

swift vulnerability

Published Jun 25, 2014 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

John Dickinson discovered that Swift did not properly quote the
WWW-Authenticate header value. If a user were tricked into navigating to a
malicious Swift URL, an attacker could conduct cross-site scripting
attacks. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked
into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote
attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential
data, within the same domain.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS swift 1.13.1-0ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium —

    OpenStack Swift Cross-site Scriping vulnerability

    Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenStack Swift 1.11.0 through 1.13.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the WWW-Authenticate header.

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3497