CVE-2012-5483

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

tools/sample_data.sh in OpenStack Keystone 2012.1.3, when access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is configured, uses world-readable permissions for /etc/keystone/ec2rc, which allows local users to obtain access to EC2 services by reading administrative access and secret values from this file.

Affected products

OpenStack Keystone: 2012.1.3

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/094286.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1556.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56888
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873447
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80612
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/094286.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1556.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56888
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873447
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80612

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