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CVE-2012-4457
OpenStack Keystone Essex before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before folsom-3 does not properly handle authorization tokens for disabled tenants,…
Medium4.0EPSS 2.3%
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- Updated
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- redhat
Description
OpenStack Keystone Essex before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before folsom-3 does not properly handle authorization tokens for disabled tenants, which allows remote authenticated users to access the tenant's resources by requesting a token for the tenant.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% 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 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIKeystoneGHSA-x8h4-xf47-pqc3 (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- 50665 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861180 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [openstack] 20120928 [OSSA 2012-016] Token authorization for a user in a disabled tenant is allowed (CVE-2012-4457) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- keystone-xauth-token-sec-bypass(78947) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120928 [OSSA 2012-016] Token authorization for a user in a disabled tenant is allowed (CVE-2012-4457) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 55716 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5373601bbdda10f879c08af1698852142b75f8d5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/4ebfdfaf23c6da8e3c182bf3ec2cb2b7132ef685 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-x8h4-xf47-pqc3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .