An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. When combined with an application credential impersonation vulnerability, an attacker with the member role on a project can escalate to admin by chaining unrestricted application credentials with Keystone trusts. The impersonated token carries the victim's identity, which passes the trustor validation check. Keystone then validates the delegated roles against the victim's actual role assignments in the database, not the roles on the requesting token. This allows the attacker to create a trust delegating the victim's admin role to themselves. The trust persists independently, and additional trusts and application credentials can be created to maintain access. All actions are logged under the victim's identity.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148477 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/2148477 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-2026-43000
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482826
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-43000.json