CVE-2020-12691

HIGH

OpenStack Keystone <16.0.0 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0357
EPSS Percentile 87.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-863
Status published

Affected Products (4)

openstack/keystone < 15.0.1
openstack/keystone
canonical/ubuntu_linux
pypi/keystone < 15.0.1PyPI

Timeline

Published May 07, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026