GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f OpenStack Keystone has an Authorization Bypass
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-42999
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- keystone
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-639, CWE-863
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-02
Affected packages
• PyPI keystone: >= 14.0.0, < 27.0.2 → fixed in 27.0.2
• PyPI keystone: >= 28.0.0, < 28.0.2 → fixed in 28.0.2
• PyPI keystone: >= 29.0.0, < 29.0.2 → fixed in 29.0.2
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).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-42999 An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42999 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42999 web
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148398 web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482840 web
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/keystone/PYSEC-2026-600.yaml web
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42999.json web
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html web