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high 8.1

CVE-2022-23451 json

Barbican authorization flaw before v14.0.0

published 2022-09-06 4 y ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-p2jg-q8hw-p7gc , PYSEC-2026-786 , EUVD-2022-6888

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican. The default policy rules for the secret metadata API allowed any authenticated user to add, modify, or delete metadata from any secret regardless of ownership. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to modify or delete protected data, causing a denial of service by consuming protected resources.

Patch / fix

  • pypi barbican 14.0.0
  • openstack barbican 14.0.0
  • barbican Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:14.0.0~rc1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23451

  • barbican Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
  • barbican Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1:10.1.0-0ubuntu2.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23451

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • python3-barbican openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican-api openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican-common openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican-worker openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican-keystone-listener openstack 16.1 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
  • python3-barbican openstack 16.2 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost
  • openstack-barbican openstack 16.2 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2022:8874RHSA-2022:5114

  • grafana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 6.7.4-3.26.1
  • python-lxml OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 4.2.4-3.3.1
  • python-Pillow OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 5.2.0-3.17.1
  • ardana-barbican OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1644879908.8a641c1-3.13.1
  • rubygem-sinatra OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 1.4.6-4.3.1
  • openstack-cinder OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 13.0.10~dev24-3.34.2
  • openstack-ironic OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 11.1.5~dev18-3.28.2
  • openstack-neutron OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 13.0.8~dev206-3.40.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1729-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-23451 updated cvss 7.1

openstack-barbican: Barbican allows authenticated users to add/modify/delete arbitrary metadata on any secret

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) python-barbican, openstack-barbican, openstack-barbican-api, openstack-barbican-common, openstack-barbican-worker, openstack-barbican-keystone-listener
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 python3-barbican 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican-api 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican-common 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican-worker 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost, openstack-barbican-keystone-listener 9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8874
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 openstack-barbican 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5114
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 python3-barbican 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost, openstack-barbican-api 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost, openstack-barbican-common 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost, openstack-barbican-worker 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost, openstack-barbican-keystone-listener 9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ost
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi barbican
<14.0.0
14.0.0

Affected products

  • n/a openstack/barbican

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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