5.4Medium

CVE-2012-5571Openstack keystone: openstack keystone: authorization bypass via improper ec2 token handling

Red Hat OpenStack Essex for RHEL 6; Red Hat OpenStack Folsom for RHEL 6; Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens); Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 Published: (13 years ago)

Description

A flaw was found in OpenStack Keystone. This vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended authorization restrictions. This occurs because OpenStack Keystone does not properly handle EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) tokens when a user's role has been removed from a tenant. An attacker can leverage a token associated with a removed user role to gain unauthorized access.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-639CWE-255

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
openstack 1 —
openstack 2 —
openstack essex 2012.1
openstack folsom 2012.2
Red Hat OpenStack Essex for RHEL 6 all versions
Red Hat OpenStack Folsom for RHEL 6 all versions
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) all versions
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 all versions
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 all versions
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 all versions

References and patches

CPE matches (NVD) (2)

  • cpe:2.3:a:openstack:essex:2012.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:2012.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*