Vulnerability in keystone (CVE-2026-43000)
Summary
Vulnerability in keystone (CVE-2026-43000). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 29.0.2 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-43000 has been found in keystone.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 6.0/10.
What to do: upgrade keystone to 29.0.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "keystone CVE-2026-43000" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-43000 (keystone) — CWE-266 / CVSS v3 6.0
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Patched: 29.0.2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-266) exists in keystone.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of keystone.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.0/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 29.0.2.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'keystone' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'keystone' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
keystoneを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade keystone to 29.0.2ステージング環境で 29.0.2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43000 keystone Fixed in: 2:18.1.0-1+deb11u3
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43000 keystone
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- web bugs.launchpad.net
- web security.openstack.org
- web github.com
- web access.redhat.com
- web bugzilla.redhat.com
- web security.access.redhat.com
- web github.com