CVE-2017-2673

Publication date 27 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.2 · High

Score breakdown

Description

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
keystone 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2:9.3.0-0ubuntu3.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Notes

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>=10.0.0 <=10.0.1, ==11.0.0

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.2 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3448-1
    • OpenStack Keystone vulnerability
    • 11 October 2017

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