CVE-2022-23451

Publication date 28 January 2022

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican. The default policy rules for the secret metadata API allowed any authenticated user to add, modify, or delete metadata from any secret regardless of ownership. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to modify or delete protected data, causing a denial of service by consuming protected resources.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
barbican	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Fixed 2:13.0.0-0ubuntu1.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:10.1.0-0ubuntu2.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
barbican	Upstream: 7d270ba Upstream: af262dc Upstream: 750a79b Upstream: b1e5386 Upstream: 64a4242 Upstream: b30cb63 Upstream: 86d7d64 Upstream: 3270240 Upstream: 3acf50a

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-23451

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Status

Patch details

Severity score breakdown

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