CVE-2012-3542

Description

OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom before folsom-rc1 and OpenStack Essex (2012.1), allows remote attackers to add an arbitrary user to an arbitrary tenant via a request to update the user's default tenant to the administrative API. NOTE: this identifier was originally incorrectly assigned to an open redirect issue, but the correct identifier for that issue is CVE-2012-3540.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/50467
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50494
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/30/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55326
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1552-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1040626
• https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5438d3b5a219d7c8fa67e66e538d325a61617155
• https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c13d0ba606f7b2bdc609a7f388334e5efec3f3aa
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16282.html
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3542
• https://github.com/openstack/keystone
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/keystone/PYSEC-2012-19.yaml
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121114023909/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55326
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140802052724/http://secunia.com/advisories/50467
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140804204333/http://secunia.com/advisories/50494
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3542

CWEs

CWE-264