keystone — security advisory
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
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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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-05-07T00:15:10.957+00:00"
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