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CVE-2012-3542

OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom before folsom-rc1 and OpenStack Essex (2012.1), allows remote attackers

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.01949
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
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Affected Products & Versions

2
openstack essexall versions
openstack horizonall versions
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
PyPI keystone HIGH fixed in 2012.1
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Scoring & Timeline

4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD05 Sep 2012 · 11:55 PM
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Vendor Advisories

3
rhsaRHSA-2012:1378Moderate
usnUSN-1552-1
rhsaRHSA-2012:1380Low
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References & Sources

9
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://secunia.com/advisories/50467Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50494Vendor Advisory
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
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