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.
CVE-2017-2673
This medium-severity CVE scores 6.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit-prediction score not yet available (the EPSS model rescores nightly; freshly-published CVEs typically appear within 48 hours). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.8
- EG Score
- 6.8(low)
- EPSS
- 79.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 19, 2018
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (12)
- secalert@redhathttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/125
- secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98032
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1461
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1597
- secalert@redhathttps://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1677723
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2673
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/125
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98032
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1461
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1597
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1677723
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2673
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2017-2673(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | python-keystone (2:9.3.0-0ubuntu3.1) @ xenial | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
| redhat | openstack-keystone-1:10.0.1-3.el7ost | 2017-06-28 | redhat |
| redhat | openstack-keystone-1:9.3.0-2.el7ost | 2017-06-14 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| keystone | 11.0.0 | 11.0.1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(1)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
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