GHSA-f889-wfwm-6p7m

OpenStack Identity Keystone Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Low CVE-2013-4477

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	keystone	< 8.0.0a0	8.0.0a0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The LDAP backend in OpenStack Identity (Keystone) Grizzly and Havana, when removing a role on a tenant for a user who does not have that role, adds the role to the user, which allows local users to gain privileges.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4477 advisory
https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/b17e7bec768bd53d3977352486378698a3db3cfa web
https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c6800ca1ac984c879e75826df6694d6199444ea0 web
https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1242855 web
https://github.com/openstack/keystone package
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0113.html web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/30/6 web
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2034-1 web