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High USN-5387-1 2 CVEs

barbican vulnerabilities

Published Apr 25, 2022 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Douglas Mendizábal discovered that Barbican incorrectly handled access
restrictions. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to
consume protected resources and possibly cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-23451, CVE-2022-23452)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS barbican 1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS barbican 1:10.1.0-0ubuntu2.1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 8.1
    CVE-2022-23451

    Barbican authorization flaw before v14.0.0

    An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican. The default policy rules for the secret metadata API allowed any authenticated user to add, modify, or delete metadata from any secret regardless of ownership. This flaw allows an attacker on the network …

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  • Medium 4.9
    CVE-2022-23452

    openstack-barbican Denial of Service vulnerability

    An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican, where anyone with an admin role could add secrets to a different project container. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to consume protected resources and cause a denial of service.

    barbican barbican barbican Debian Ubuntu PyPI

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-23451
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-23452