CVE-2019-3683

keystone_json_assignment backend granted access to any project for users in user-project-map.json

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: January 17, 2020 at 11:10 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:35 AM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsOpenstack CloudHelion OpenstackKeystone JSON Assignment

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%

Description

The keystone-json-assignment package in SUSE Openstack Cloud 8 before commit d7888c75505465490250c00cc0ef4bb1af662f9f every user listed in the /etc/keystone/user-project-map.json was assigned full "member" role access to every project. This allowed these users to access, modify, create and delete arbitrary resources, contrary to expectations.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2019-02-18
Affected range stops below 2019-02-18, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
8.0keystone-json-assignment

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (2)

CVSS

8.8HIGHsuse
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-732

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