CVE-2012-3542
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 2.5% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0013)
- Published
- September 5, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0013 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openstack / essex
- openstack / horizon
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50467(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50494(Vendor 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
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5438d3b5a219d7c8fa67e66e538d325a61617155(Patch)
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c13d0ba606f7b2bdc609a7f388334e5efec3f3aa(Patch)
- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16282.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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