USN-3448-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerability

11 October 2017

OpenStack Keystone would allow unintended access over the network.

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Boris Bobrov discovered that OpenStack Keystone incorrectly handled
federation mapping when there are rules in which group-based assignments
are not used. A remote authenticated user may receive all the roles
assigned to a project regardless of the federation mapping, contrary to
expectations.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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