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CVE-2020-12691: PYSEC-2020-55 - 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

CVE-2020-12691 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2020-05-07

Technologies: keystone (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

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.

Affected products

  • PyPI keystone

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