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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2026-42999 EUVD-2026-33241GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5fPYSEC-2026-600

OpenStack Keystone has an Authorization Bypass

Published May 28, 2026 · Updated Jul 24, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone RBAC policy enforcer in enforce_call unconditionally merges the raw JSON request body into the policy enforcement dictionary via policy_dict.update(json_input.copy()), overwriting trusted target data that was previously set from database lookups. Because flask.request.get_json is called with force=True, this works regardless of Content-Type or HTTP method. Any authenticated user can inject arbitrary policy target attributes (e.g., user_id, project_id) into the request body to bypass RBAC checks and perform unauthorized operations on resources belonging to other users or projects. This was introduced in commit 5ea59f52 (Rocky/14.0.0).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenStack Keystone 14.0.0 – < 27.0.2, 28.0.0 – < 28.0.2, 29.0.0 – < 29.0.2 27.0.2

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 keystone 2:29.0.1-2 —
Debian 13 keystone 2:27.0.0-3+deb13u4 —
Debian 12 keystone 2:22.0.2-0+deb12u3 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS keystone 2:29.0.0-0ubuntu1.2 —
Ubuntu 25.10 keystone 2:28.0.0-0ubuntu1.3 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS keystone 2:25.0.0-0ubuntu1.4 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS keystone 2:21.0.1-0ubuntu2.4 —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS keystone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS keystone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS keystone No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI keystone >= 14.0.0, < 27.0.2 27.0.2 GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f
PyPI keystone >= 28.0.0, < 28.0.2 28.0.2 GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f
PyPI keystone >= 29.0.0, < 29.0.2 29.0.2 GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f
PyPI keystone >= 14.0.0, < 27.0.2 · >= 28.0.0, < 28.0.2 · >= 29.0.0, < 29.0.2 27.0.2, 28.0.2, 29.0.2 PYSEC-2026-600

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