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CVE-2017-2673

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

An authorization-check flaw was discovered in federation configurations of the OpenStack Identity service (keystone). An authenticated federated user could request permissions to a project and unintentionally be granted all related roles including administrative roles.

Affected products

• OpenStack: 9, 10

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/125
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98032
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1461
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1597
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1677723
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2673
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/125
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98032
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1461
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1597
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1677723
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2673

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