CVE-2026-43000

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. When combined with an application credential impersonation vulnerability, an attacker with the member role on a project can escalate to admin by chaining unrestricted application credentials with Keystone trusts. The impersonated token carries the victim's identity, which passes the trustor validation check. Keystone then validates the delegated roles against the victim's actual role assignments in the database, not the roles on the requesting token. This allows the attacker to create a trust delegating the victim's admin role to themselves. The trust persists independently, and additional trusts and application credentials can be created to maintain access. All actions are logged under the victim's identity.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
mitreCNA
6 MEDIUM
NETWORK
HIGH
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: Unknown
Early Detection
Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.
VendorProductVersionSource
openstackkeystone
14.0.0 ≤
𝑥
< 27.0.2
CNA
openstackkeystone
28.0.0 ≤
𝑥
< 28.0.2
CNA
openstackkeystone
29.0.0 ≤
𝑥
< 29.0.2
CNA
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Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
keystone
bookworm
vulnerable
bookworm (security)
vulnerable
bullseye
vulnerable
bullseye (security)
vulnerable
forky
vulnerable
sid
2:29.0.1-2
fixed
trixie
vulnerable
trixie (security)
vulnerable