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keystone: privilege escalation

Package(s):keystone CVE #(s):CVE-2012-4413
Created:September 13, 2012 Updated:September 19, 2012
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

Dolph Mathews discovered that when roles are granted and revoked to users in Keystone, pre-existing tokens were not updated or invalidated to take the new roles into account. An attacker could use this to continue to access resources that have been revoked.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1564-1 2012-09-12
Fedora FEDORA-2012-13075 2012-10-03
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1378-01 2012-10-16

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