High severity · published May 28, 2026
CVE-2026-42998
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2
8.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone application credential authentication plugin does not verify that the user supplied in the authentication request matches the owner of the application credential. An attacker can authenticate with their own application credential ID and secret while specifying a different user's name and domain in the request body. Keystone issues a token attributed to the victim user. The impersonated token is project-scoped and carries the intersection of the application credential's roles and the victim's actual roles on the project. This enables audit evasion, reading the victim's credentials, and acting as the victim within shared projects.
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)0.3% · higher than 23% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Keystone · OpenStack
14.0.0 before 27.0.2; 28.0.0 before 28.0.2; 29.0.0 before 29.0.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42998
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42998
Exploit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148477
Patch
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html
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