vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-4480-1 (CVE-2020-12691): OpenStack Keystone vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) | May 7, 2020 | Sep 2, 2020 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 7, 2020
Added
Sep 2, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0. Any authenticated user can create an EC2 credential for themselves for a project that they have a specified role on, and then perform an update to the credential user and project, allowing them to masquerade as another user. This potentially allows a malicious user to act as the admin on a project another user has the admin role on, which can effectively grant that user global admin privileges.
Solutions
ubuntu-upgrade-keystoneubuntu-upgrade-python-keystone
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