CVE-2022-23452

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-863

Description

An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican, where anyone with an admin role could add secrets to a different project container. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to consume protected resources and cause a denial of service.

Affected products

OpenStack Barbican: before 14.0.0 — fixed in 14.0.0
nova_libvirt container provided by the Red Hat OpenStack Platform: 16.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenStack Barbican 14.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23452
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022908
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025090
https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/barbican/+/814200
https://storyboard.openstack.org/#%21/story/2009297
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23452
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022908
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025090
https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/barbican/+/814200
https://storyboard.openstack.org/#%21/story/2009297

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