CVE-2020-12691

HIGH

OpenStack Keystone <16.0.0 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2020-004.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/06/5
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1872733
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/07/2
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4480-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0357
EPSS Percentile 87.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-863
Status published
Products (4)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
openstack/keystone 16.0.0
openstack/keystone < 15.0.1
pypi/keystone 0 - 15.0.1PyPI
Published May 07, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026