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CVE-2017-12440

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-12440 describes a vulnerability in OpenStack Aodh (Ocata and Newton releases) where it fails to validate trust IDs when creating alarm actions using the 'trust+http' scheme. This allows remote authenticated users, if they know a trust ID where Aodh is the trustee, to obtain a Keystone token and perform unauthorized authenticated actions. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requiring high attack complexity and low privileges. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
07132017CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:openstack:07132017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0214 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 1,162 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 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 (5)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: aodhFixed in: 6.0.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)Fixed in: openstack-aodh-0:3.0.4-1.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata)Fixed in: openstack-aodh-0:4.0.2-3.el7ost
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)Fixed in: openstack-aodh
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: openstack-aodh

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-86cv-9gpx-6hwjhigh

Openstack Aodh can be used to launder Keystone trusts

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-12440Moderate

openstack-aodh: Aodh can be used to launder Keystone trusts

Aug 17, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:3227
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:0315
bugs.launchpad.net / ossn/+bug/1649333
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
review.openstack.org
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
review.openstack.org
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
review.openstack.org
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3953
securityfocus.com / bid/100455
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry