GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-q623-f4j4-p4xj OpenStack Keystone has an Incorrect Authorization issue
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-43000
- 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-266, 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. When combined with an application credential impersonation vulnerability, an attacker with the member role on a project can escalate to admin by chaining unrestricted application credentials with Keystone trusts. The impersonated token carries the victim's identity, which passes the trustor validation check. Keystone then validates the delegated roles against the victim's actual role assignments in the database, not the roles on the requesting token. This allows the attacker to create a trust delegating the victim's admin role to themselves. The trust persists independently, and additional trusts and application credentials can be created to maintain access. All actions are logged under the victim's identity.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-43000 An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43000 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43000 web
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148477 web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482826 web
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/keystone/PYSEC-2026-601.yaml web
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-43000.json web
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html web