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CVE-2012-3542
OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom before folsom-rc1 and OpenStack Essex (2012.1), allows remote attackers to add an…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.5%
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- redhat
Description
OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom before folsom-rc1 and OpenStack Essex (2012.1), allows remote attackers to add an arbitrary user to an arbitrary tenant via a request to update the user's default tenant to the administrative API. NOTE: this identifier was originally incorrectly assigned to an open redirect issue, but the correct identifier for that issue is CVE-2012-3540.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIkeystoneGHSA-gf2q-j2qq-pjf2 (opens in a new tab)
References (9)
- 50467 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 55326 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [openstack] 20120830 [OSSA 2012-013] Keystone, Lack of authorization for adding users to tenants (CVE-2012-3542) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c13d0ba606f7b2bdc609a7f388334e5efec3f3aa (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120830 [OSSA 2012-013] Keystone, Lack of authorization for adding users to tenants (CVE-2012-3542) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5438d3b5a219d7c8fa67e66e538d325a61617155 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 50494 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1040626 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1552-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gf2q-j2qq-pjf2 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .