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CVE-2022-23451

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-23451 is an authorization flaw in OpenStack Barbican, affecting OpenStack Barbican, OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Barbican, and Red Hat OpenStack Platform. The vulnerability allows any authenticated user to modify or delete metadata from any secret, regardless of ownership. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.1) has a low attack complexity and can lead to a denial of service by corrupting protected data. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 14.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:barbican:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack_platform:13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack_platform:16.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack_platform:16.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0101 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 17,805 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: barbicanFixed in: 14.0.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: openstack-barbican-0:9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed in: openstack-barbican-0:9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-p2jg-q8hw-p7gchigh

Barbican authorization flaw before v14.0.0

Sep 7, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-23451Moderate

openstack-barbican: Barbican allows authenticated users to add/modify/delete arbitrary metadata on any secret

Dec 13, 2021

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2022-23451
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPermissions Required
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
review.opendev.org / c/openstack/barbican/+/811236
PatchThird Party Advisory
storyboard.openstack.org