CVE-2022-23451An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican. The default policy rules for the secret metadata API allowed any authenticated user…
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 30% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican. The default policy rules for the secret metadata API allowed any authenticated user to add, modify, or delete metadata from any secret regardless of ownership. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to modify or delete protected data, causing a denial of service by consuming protected resources.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
openstack/barbican
- affected Fixed in v14.0.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIbarbicanGHSA-p2jg-q8hw-p7gc (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025089 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022878 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://storyboard.openstack.org/#%21/story/2009253 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/barbican/+/811236 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23451 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2022-6888 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-p2jg-q8hw-p7gc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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