Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3542

Title: Openstack Essex

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3542.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Sep 05, 2012
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.48%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3542: OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom before folsom-rc1 and OpenStack Essex (2012.1), allows remote attackers to add an arbitrary user to an arbitrary tenant via a request to update the user's default tenant to the administrative API. NOTE: this identifier was originally incorrectly assigned to an open redirect issue, but the correct identifier for that issue is CVE-2012-3540.

Impacted Vendors

O
openstack 2
V
vmware 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/50467 http://secunia.com/advisories/50494 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/30/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55326 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1552-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1040626 https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5438d3b5a219d7c8fa67e66e538d325a61617155 https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c13d0ba606f7b2bdc609a7f388334e5efec3f3aa https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16282.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50467 http://secunia.com/advisories/50494 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/30/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55326 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1552-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1040626 https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5438d3b5a219d7c8fa67e66e538d325a61617155 https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/c13d0ba606f7b2bdc609a7f388334e5efec3f3aa https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16282.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3542 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.