PYSEC-2026-785

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-06 08:03 - Updated: 2026-07-07 11:30
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Details

An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican, where anyone with an admin role could add secrets to a different project container. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to consume protected resources and cause a denial of service.

Severity
4.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Impacted products
Name purl
barbican pkg:pypi/barbican
Aliases
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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "barbican",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/barbican"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "14.0.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
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        "10.0.0",
        "10.0.0.0rc1",
        "10.1.0",
        "11.0.0",
        "11.0.0.0rc1",
        "12.0.0",
        "12.0.0.0rc1",
        "12.0.0.0rc2",
        "12.0.1",
        "12.0.2",
        "13.0.0",
        "13.0.0.0rc1",
        "13.0.1",
        "13.0.2",
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        "6.0.0.0b1",
        "8.0.0",
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        "8.0.1",
        "9.0.0",
        "9.0.0.0rc1",
        "9.0.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-23452",
    "GHSA-6p2h-rjj7-2j63"
  ],
  "details": "An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican, where anyone with an admin role could add secrets to a different project container. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to consume protected resources and cause a denial of service.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2026-785",
  "modified": "2026-07-07T11:30:27.297521Z",
  "published": "2026-07-06T08:03:32.391529Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23452"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/openstack/barbican/commit/6c841b23afa8ed6fa4cd01ba1a6bebfb60f06ae5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5114"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8874"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23452"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022908"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025090"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/barbican/+/814200"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2009297"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://storyboard.openstack.org/#%21/story/2009297"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/barbican"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6p2h-rjj7-2j63"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "openstack-barbican Denial of Service vulnerability"
}



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