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SCA: security update for Keystone (GHSA-qvpr-qm6w-6rcc)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433531

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A flaw was found in OpenStack Keystone. This vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to bypass
 intended authorization restrictions. This occurs because OpenStack Keystone does not properly handle EC2
 (Elastic Compute Cloud) tokens when a user's role has been removed from a tenant. An attacker can leverage
 a token associated with a removed user role to gain unauthorized access. (CVE-2012-5571)

Solution

Update the Keystone library and its related packages to version 8.0.0a0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qvpr-qm6w-6rcc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433531

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.46

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5571

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5571

BID: 56726

cwe: CWE-639