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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-20170

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

OpenStack Keystone has a user enumeration vulnerability because invalid usernames have much faster responses than valid ones for a POST "/v3/auth/tokens request". NOTE: the vendor's position is that this is a hardening opportunity, and not necessarily an issue that should have an OpenStack Security Advisory

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published