CVE-2026-42999: OpenStack Keystone has an Authorization Bypass
(updated )
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).
References
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42999
- bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2148398
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482840
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/keystone/PYSEC-2026-600.yaml
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42999
- security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42999.json
- security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html
Code Behaviors & Features
Detect and mitigate CVE-2026-42999 with GitLab Dependency Scanning
Secure your software supply chain by verifying that all open source dependencies used in your projects contain no disclosed vulnerabilities. Learn more about Dependency Scanning →