openstack/keystone · Security
OpenStack Keystone has an Authorization Bypass
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-42999
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Description
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).
CWEs
- CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
- CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42999 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148398 ↗
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42999 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482840 ↗
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42999.json ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/keystone/PYSEC-2026-600.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f ↗