CVE-2012-4456
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 4.0%EU EUVD
The (1) OS-KSADM/services and (2) tenant APIs in OpenStack Keystone Essex before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before folsom-2 do not properly validate X-Auth-Token, which allow remote attackers to read the roles for an arbitrary user or get, create, or delete arbitrary services.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-287
- EPSS score
- 4.0% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-4547)
- Published
- October 9, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-4547 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openstack / keystone
- openstack / keystone
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50665(Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/28/5(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55716(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1006815(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1006822(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861179(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78944(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/14b136aed9d988f5a8f3e699bd4577c9b874d6c1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/1d146f5c32e58a73a677d308370f147a3271c2cb(Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/24df3adb3f50cbb5ada411bc67aba8a781e6a431(Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/868054992faa45d6f42d822bf1588cb88d7c9ccb(Third Party Advisory)
- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg17034.html(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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