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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.2

CVE-2026-97404 json

In OpenStack Zaqar before 22.0.2, WSGI transport mishandles the URL-Signature header.

published 2026-09-24 45 d ago modified 2026-09-26 43 d ago also EUVD-2026-85915

cvss
9.2
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 18%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In OpenStack Zaqar before 22.0.2, WSGI transport mishandles the URL-Signature header. By sending a request with an empty URL-Signature header, an unauthenticated remote attacker who knows a target project's UUID may bypass both Keystone authentication and pre-signed URL verification, resulting in the ability to read, enumerate, create, and delete that project's queues, messages, claims, and subscriptions. By additionally claiming an administrative role, the attacker may also perform administrative operations, such as managing pools and flavors in admin_mode deployments. Only deployments using the WSGI transport with an authentication strategy configured are affected; the websocket transport is not affected.

Patch / fix

  • OpenStack Zaqar 20.1.2, 21.0.2, 22.0.2
  • zaqar Debian 14 23.0.0~rc1-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97404

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-2026-97404 updated cvss 6.5

zaqar: OpenStack Zaqar: authentication bypass via empty URL-Signature header

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) openstack-zaqar, python-zaqar-tests Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 openstack-zaqar, rhosp-rhel8/openstack-zaqar-wsgi
    affected: workaround, no fix available

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
43 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 9.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 9.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • OpenStack Zaqar

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-348 Use of Less Trusted Source

References

Sources

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