CVE-2017-2673
An authorization-check flaw was discovered in federation configurations of the OpenStack Identity service (keystone). An authenticated…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 2.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An authorization-check flaw was discovered in federation configurations of the OpenStack Identity service (keystone). An authenticated federated user could request permissions to a project and unintentionally be granted all related roles including administrative roles.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
[UNKNOWN] · openstack-keystone
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIkeystoneGHSA-j36m-hv43-7w7m (opens in a new tab)
References
6
- [oss-security] 20170425 [OSSA-2017-004] federated user gets wrong role (CVE-2017-2673) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2673 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1677723 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1461 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1597 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 98032 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0083 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j36m-hv43-7w7m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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