High severity · published May 7, 2020
CVE-2020-12690
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0
8.8
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0. The list of roles provided for an OAuth1 access token is silently ignored. Thus, when an access token is used to request a keystone token, the keystone token contains every role assignment the creator had for the project. This results in the provided keystone token having more role assignments than the creator intended, possibly giving unintended escalated access.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Keystone · Openstack
before 15.0.1; 16.0.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12690
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12690
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/07/3
Patch
https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1873290
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re237267da268c690df5e1c6ea6a38a7fc11617725e8049490f58a6fa%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re4ffc55cd2f1b55a26e07c83b3c22c3fe4bae6054d000a57fb48d8c2%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
Vendor Advisory
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2020-005.html
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4480-1/
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