CVE-2012-3542

Advisory

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.

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Vulnerability changelog

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.


MLIST:[openstack] 20120830 [OSSA 2012-013] Keystone, Lack of authorization for adding users to tenants (CVE-2012-3542): https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16282.html
MLIST:[oss-security] 20120830 [OSSA 2012-013] Keystone, Lack of authorization for adding users to tenants (CVE-2012-3542): http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/30/6
CONFIRM:https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1040626: https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1040626
CONFIRM:https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5438d3b5a219d7c8fa67e66e538d325a61617155: https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5438d3b5a219d7c8fa67e66e538d325a61617155
CONFIRM:https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c13d0ba606f7b2bdc609a7f388334e5efec3f3aa: https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c13d0ba606f7b2bdc609a7f388334e5efec3f3aa
UBUNTU:USN-1552-1: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1552-1
BID:55326: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55326
SECUNIA:50467: http://secunia.com/advisories/50467
SECUNIA:50494: http://secunia.com/advisories/50494

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3542
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50467
• https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5438d3b5a219d7c8fa67e66e538d325a61617155
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1040626
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55326
• https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c13d0ba606f7b2bdc609a7f388334e5efec3f3aa
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/30/6
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1552-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50494
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16282.html