--- title: "CVE-2012-4456\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4456?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2012-4456 Publication date 9 October 2012 Last updated 24 July 2024 --- Ubuntu priority **Medium** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## Description The (1) OS-KSADM/services and (2) tenant APIs in OpenStack Keystone Essex before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before folsom-2 do not properly validate X-Auth-Token, which allow remote attackers to read the roles for an arbitrary user or get, create, or delete arbitrary services. [Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4456?format=md#notes) ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | keystone | 12.10 quantal | Not affected | | 12.04 LTS precise | Fixed 2012.1+stable~20120824-a16a0ab9-0ubuntu2 | | 11.10 oneiric | Ignored | | 11.04 natty | Not in release | | 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release | | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## Notes --- ### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand) Keystone on 11.10 is a pre-release version and unusable with other components such as nova and horizon ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4456) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4456) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2012-4456) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4456) ### Other references * *