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CVE-2026-42998

31
FAUCET Score

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone application credential authentication plugin does not verify that the user supplied in the authentication request matches the owner of the application credential. An attacker can authenticate with their own application credential ID and secret while specifying a different user's name and domain in the request body. Keystone issues a token attributed to the victim user. The impersonated token is project-scoped and carries the intersection of the application credential's roles and the victim's actual roles on the project. This enables audit evasion, reading the victim's credentials, and acting as the victim within shared projects.

First published: May 28, 2026Last modified: May 28, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 14.0.0, < 27.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 28.0.0, < 28.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 29.0.0, < 29.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
22.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0030 is in the 10th percentile among its peer group of 17,808 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

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 (7)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: keystoneFixed in: 27.0.2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: keystoneFixed in: 28.0.2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: keystoneFixed in: 29.0.2
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: keystone (jammy)Fixed in: 2:21.0.1-0ubuntu2.4
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: keystone (noble)Fixed in: 2:25.0.0-0ubuntu1.4
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: keystone (questing)Fixed in: 2:28.0.0-0ubuntu1.3
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: keystone (resolute)Fixed in: 2:29.0.0-0ubuntu1.2

Vendor Advisories (2)

ubuntuUSN-8433-1

OpenStack Keystone vulnerabilities

Jun 16, 2026
pipGHSA-8f8m-wrvr-wcvfmedium

OpenStack Keystone doesn't verify that the user supplied in the authentication request matches the owner of the application credential

May 28, 2026

References

bugs.launchpad.net / keystone/+bug/2148477
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
security.openstack.org / ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html
PatchVendor Advisory