CVE-2026-42999An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone RBAC policy enforcer in enforce_call unconditionally merges the…
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 0.33%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 74% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone RBAC policy enforcer in enforce_call unconditionally merges the raw JSON request body into the policy enforcement dictionary via policy_dict.update(json_input.copy()), overwriting trusted target data that was previously set from database lookups. Because flask.request.get_json is called with force=True, this works regardless of Content-Type or HTTP method. Any authenticated user can inject arbitrary policy target attributes (e.g., user_id, project_id) into the request body to bypass RBAC checks and perform unauthorized operations on resources belonging to other users or projects. This was introduced in commit 5ea59f52 (Rocky/14.0.0).
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 27 days later
· 27 days later
Published
- 57 days later
· 57 days 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| redhat-SADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIkeystoneGHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148398 (opens in a new tab)
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42999 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2482840 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42999.json (opens in a new tab)x_sadp-csaf-vex
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-2026-33241 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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