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CVE-2019-3683: keystone_json_assignment backend granted access to any project for users in user-project-map.json

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

The keystone-json-assignment package in SUSE Openstack Cloud 8 before commit d7888c75505465490250c00cc0ef4bb1af662f9f every user listed in the /etc/keystone/user-project-map.json was assigned full "member" role access to every project. This allowed these users to access, modify, create and delete arbitrary resources, contrary to expectations.

Affected products

• HP Helion Openstack: 8.0
• SUSE Keystone-Json-Assignment: before 2019-02-18 — fixed in 2019-02-18
• SUSE Openstack Cloud: 8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SUSE Keystone-Json-Assignment 2019-02-18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1124864
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3683/
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1124864

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