High severity · published May 28, 2026
CVE-2026-42999
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 RBAC policy enforcer in enforce_call unconditionally merges the raw JSON request body into the policy enforcement dictionary via policy_dict.update(json_input.copy()), overwriting trusted target data that was previously set from database lookups. Because flask.request.get_json is called with force=True, this works regardless of Content-Type or HTTP method. Any authenticated user can inject arbitrary policy target attributes (e.g., user_id, project_id) into the request body to bypass RBAC checks and perform unauthorized operations on resources belonging to other users or projects. This was introduced in commit 5ea59f52 (Rocky/14.0.0).
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 26% 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
RH
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42999
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42999
Exploit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148398
Patch
https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42999
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482840
security.access.redhat.com
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42999.json
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