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).
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148398 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.8 · openstackNVD modified 2026-10-26 13:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148398 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42999
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482840
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42999.json