CVE-2020-12691

Summary

CVECVE-2020-12691
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-07 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-863

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Application Openstack Keystone All All All All
Application Openstack Keystone 16.0.0 All All All
Application Openstack Keystone All All All All
Application Openstack Keystone 16.0.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
OpenStack Docs: OSSA-2020-004: Keystone credential endpoints allow owner modification and are not protected from a scoped context CONFIRM security.openstack.org Vendor Advisory
oss-security - [OSSA-2020-004] Keystone: Keystone credential endpoints allow owner modification and are not protected from a scoped context (CVE PENDING) MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Bug #1872733 “[OSSA-2020-004] Keystone V3 /credentials endpoint ...” : Bugs : OpenStack Identity (keystone) MISC bugs.launchpad.net Patch, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: [OSSA-2020-004] Keystone: Keystone credential endpoints allow owner modification and are not protected from a scoped context (CVE PENDING) MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[druid-commits] 20210712 [druid] branch master updated: Suppress CVE-2021-27568 from json-smart 2.3 dependency (#11438) lists.apache.org
USN-4480-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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