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title: "CVE-2012-3542\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2012-3542

Publication date 30 August 2012

Last updated 4 August 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom before folsom-rc1 and
OpenStack Essex (2012.1), allows remote attackers to add an arbitrary user
to an arbitrary tenant via a request to update the user's default tenant to
the administrative API. NOTE: this identifier was originally incorrectly
assigned to an open redirect issue, but the correct identifier for that
issue is CVE-2012-3540.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| keystone | 12.04 LTS precise | Fixed 2012.1+stable~20120824-a16a0ab9-0ubuntu2.1 |
| 11.10 oneiric | Not affected |
| 11.04 natty | Not in release |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release |

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## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3542)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3542)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2012-3542)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3542)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-1552-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-1552-1)
+ OpenStack Keystone vulnerabilities
+ 3 September 2012

### Other references

* <http://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/5438d3b5a219d7c8fa67e66e538d325a61617155>
* <https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16282.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3542>
