CVE-2026-42999 (GCVE-0-2026-42999)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-28 00:00
Modified
2026-07-24 12:05
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone RBAC policy enforcer in enforce_call unconditionally merges the raw JSON request body into the policy enforcement dictionary via policy_dict.update(json_input.copy()), overwriting trusted target data that was previously set from database lookups. Because flask.request.get_json is called with force=True, this works regardless of Content-Type or HTTP method. Any authenticated user can inject arbitrary policy target attributes (e.g., user_id, project_id) into the request body to bypass RBAC checks and perform unauthorized operations on resources belonging to other users or projects. This was introduced in commit 5ea59f52 (Rocky/14.0.0).
References
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