A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the oslo.privsep functionality of OpenStack git master 05194e7618 and prior.

published 2022-12-21 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-40670

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits: 0; none known

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the oslo.privsep functionality of OpenStack git master 05194e7618 and prior. Overly permissive functionality within tools leveraging this library within a container can lead increased privileges.

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-2022-38065 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 8.8

oslo-privsep: privilege escalation vulnerability

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) python2-oslo-privsep, python-oslo-privsep-lang Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 python3-oslo-privsep, python-oslo-privsep-lang Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 python3-oslo-privsep, python-oslo-privsep-lang Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 python3-oslo-privsep, python-oslo-privsep-lang
not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: Proof of concept is public
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-15)

Exploit prediction

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

talosintelligence.com https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1599 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

OpenStack OpenStack

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

talosintelligence.com /vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1599
exploit, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-38065
NVD CVE-2022-38065

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Summary