CVE-2012-4457
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.0
Description
OpenStack Keystone Essex before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before folsom-3 does not properly handle authorization tokens for disabled tenants, which allows remote authenticated users to access the tenant's resources by requesting a token for the tenant.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2012.1.1-9 |
| sid | Fixed | 2012.1.1-9 |
| forky | Fixed | 2012.1.1-9 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2012.1.1-9 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2012.1.1-9 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | keystone | <8.0.0a0 | 8.0.0a0 |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50665
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/28/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55716
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861180
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78947
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/4ebfdfaf23c6da8e3c182bf3ec2cb2b7132ef685
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5373601bbdda10f879c08af1698852142b75f8d5
- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg17035.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4457
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4457
CWEs
CWE-287
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.