GHSA-f889-wfwm-6p7m

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    GHSA-f889-wfwm-6p7m

    Published: 17 May 2022Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary: OpenStack Identity Keystone Privilege Escalation vulnerability

    Details: The LDAP backend in OpenStack Identity (Keystone) Grizzly and Havana, when removing a role on a tenant for a user who does not have that role, adds the role to the user, which allows local users to gain privileges.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4477, https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/b17e7bec768bd53d3977352486378698a3db3cfa, https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c6800ca1ac984c879e75826df6694d6199444ea0, https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1242855, https://github.com/openstack/keystone, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0113.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/30/6, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2034-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: keystone

    Purl: pkg:pypi/keystone

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8.0.0a0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High