CVE-2022-23451

highpriority · track · 32OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.013 · 69 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.25% (69th) EPSS

CVSS 8.1 · high

Is it mine?

9 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.2

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-863USCWE-863US

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
n/a openstack/barbican≤ Fixed in v14.0.0enisa_euvdEU
openstack barbican< 14.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:barbican:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openstack platform= 13.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openstack platform= 16.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat openstack platform= 16.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI barbican< 14.0.0osvUSpkg:pypi/barbican

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-0439Red Hat OpenStack: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-06-22csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer oder authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat OpenStack ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, Daten zu manipulieren und einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu verursachen.
GHSA-p2jg-q8hw-p7gcBarbican authorization flaw before v14.0.02022-09-07ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2026-786Barbican authorization flaw before v14.0.02026-07-06vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (6)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-09-06modified 2026-06-17

references (27)

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