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GHSA-hcqg-5g63-7j9h CVE-2025-65073 PYSEC-2026-1490

OpenStack Keystone allows /v3/ec2tokens or /v3/s3tokens request with valid AWS Signature to provide Keystone authorization.

High PyPI
Severity
7.5 / 10
High · CVSS 3.1
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.24%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 15.50% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
Fix
26.0.1
Upgrade keystone to this version or later

Description

OpenStack Keystone before 26.0.1, 27.0.0, and 28.0.0 allows a /v3/ec2tokens or /v3/s3tokens request with a valid AWS Signature to provide Keystone authorization.

Affected versions

PyPI

PackageVulnerableFixed in
keystone
< 26.0.1
26.0.1
keystone
>= 27.0.0.0rc1, < 27.0.0
27.0.0
keystone
>= 28.0.0.0rc1, < 28.0.0
28.0.0
keystone
< 26.0.1
>= 27.0.0.0rc1, < 27.0.0
>= 28.0.0.0rc1, < 28.0.0
26.0.1
27.0.0
28.0.0

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

keystone PyPI → 26.0.1

pip
pip install --upgrade "keystone>=26.0.1"
poetry
poetry add "keystone>=26.0.1"
uv
uv add "keystone>=26.0.1"

Severity breakdown

CVSS 3.1 7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Weakness

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) [REF-229] to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries. Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the same role.
  • Architecture and Design: Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records. For example, a database may restrict access for medical records to a specific database user, but each record might only be intended to be accessible to the patient and the patient's doctor [REF-7].
  • Architecture and Design: Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid. For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
  • Architecture and Design: For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page. One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests that are accompanied by an active and authenticated session token associated with a user who has the required permissions to access that page.
  • System Configuration, Installation: Use the access control capabilities of your operating system and server environment and define your access control lists accordingly. Use a "default deny" policy when defining these ACLs.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last updated by the source
  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77q
OpenStack Keystone's federated token rescoping mechanism doesn't propagate the original token's expiry to the newly issued token
High Also affects keystone
GHSA-q623-f4j4-p4xj
OpenStack Keystone has an Incorrect Authorization issue
High Also affects keystone
GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f
OpenStack Keystone has an Authorization Bypass
High Also affects keystone
GHSA-8f8m-wrvr-wcvf
OpenStack Keystone doesn't verify that the user supplied in the authentication request matches the owner of the application credential
High Also affects keystone
GHSA-hhq2-3832-xxcv
OpenStack Keystone has an Incorrect Authorization Issue
High Also affects keystone
GHSA-pfx2-9x9m-7ghx
OpenStack Keystone: LDAP identity backend does not convert enabled attribute to boolean
High Also affects keystone
GHSA-4phw-6824-6cfp
OpenStack Keystone: Restricted application credentials can create EC2 credentials
Medium Also affects keystone
GHSA-cc99-whm5-mmq3
Openstack Keystone Incorrect Authorization vulnerability
Critical Also affects keystone
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