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keystone — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12691

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0. Any authenticated user can create an EC2 credential for themselves for a project that they have a specified role on, and then perform an update to the credential user and project, allowing them to masquerade as another user. 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.

Products
keystone
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2:17.0.0~rc2-1
CVEs
CVE-2020-12691
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 12:33 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12691

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 May 2020, 00:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0. Any authenticated user can create an EC2 credential for themselves for a project that they have a specified role on, and then perform an update to the credential user and project, allowing them to masquerade as another user. 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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12691

keystone

Fixed versions: 2:17.0.0~rc2-1

keystone

Fixed versions: 2:17.0.0~rc2-1

keystone

Fixed versions: 2:17.0.0~rc2-1

Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-26T12:00:29.507821783Z",
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