CVE-2012-5571 (GCVE-0-2012-5571)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-12-18 01:00
Modified
2026-04-07 06:55
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EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Summary
A flaw was found in OpenStack Keystone. This vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended authorization restrictions. This occurs because OpenStack Keystone does not properly handle EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) tokens when a user's role has been removed from a tenant. An attacker can leverage a token associated with a removed user role to gain unauthorized access.
References
Impacted products
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| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) |
cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:13 |
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