OpenStack Keystone has an Authorization Bypass
GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f · CVE-2026-42999 · PYSEC-2026-600
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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).
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42999
- WEB 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
- PACKAGE https://github.com/openstack/keystone
- WEB 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
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