RHSA-2022:5114 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openstack-barbican is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 16.2.3 (Train).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Barbican is a ReST API designed for the secure storage, provisioning and
management of secrets, including in OpenStack environments.

Security Fix(es):

• Barbican allows authenticated users to add/modify/delete arbitrary metadata on any secret (CVE-2022-23451)
• Barbican allows authenticated role to add secrets to a different project's containers (CVE-2022-23452)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 16.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack 16.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2025089 - CVE-2022-23451 openstack-barbican: Barbican allows authenticated users to add/modify/delete arbitrary metadata on any secret
• BZ - 2025090 - CVE-2022-23452 openstack-barbican: Barbican allows anyone with an admin role to add their secrets to a different project's containers

CVEs

• CVE-2022-23451
• CVE-2022-23452

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate