CVE-2020-12689

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0. Any user authenticated within a limited scope (trust/oauth/application credential) can create an EC2 credential with an escalated permission, such as obtaining admin while the user is on a limited viewer role. 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.

• CWE-269

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/07/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1872735Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re4ffc55cd2f1b55a26e07c83b3c22c3fe4bae6054d000a57fb48d8c2%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
• https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2020-004.htmlVendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4480-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/06/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/07/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1872735Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re4ffc55cd2f1b55a26e07c83b3c22c3fe4bae6054d000a57fb48d8c2%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
• https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2020-004.htmlVendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4480-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/06/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Published

May 7, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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