CVE-2026-42999
Title: OpenStack Keystone RBAC Bypass via Policy Enforcement Dictionary Overwrite
Proof Of Concept
No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2026-42999.
Vulnerability Summary
CVE-2026-42999: An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone RBAC policy enforcer in enforce_call unconditionally merges the raw JSON request body into the policy enforcement dictionary via policy_dict.update(json_input.copy()), overwriting trusted target data that was previously set from database lookups. Because flask.request.get_json is called with force=True, this works regardless of Content-Type or HTTP method. Any authenticated user can inject arbitrary policy target attributes (e.g., user_id, project_id) into the request body to bypass RBAC checks and perform unauthorized operations on resources belonging to other users or projects. This was introduced in commit 5ea59f52 (Rocky/14.0.0).
Impacted Vendors
Reference Links
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)
Total: PatternsNo specific attack patterns mapped.
CVE-2026-42999 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)
No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.
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Attack Vector Matrix
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Stack
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