CVE-2022-38065 Privilege escalation in OpenStack

What is CVE-2022-38065?

CVE-2022-38065 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Openstack, published on 21 Dec 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the oslo.privsep functionality of OpenStack git master 05194e7618 and prior. Overly permissive functionality within tools leveraging this library within a container can lead increased privileges.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38065?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Openstack.

How do I fix CVE-2022-38065?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-38065 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-38065 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-38065 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Openstack

• CVE-2015-1842 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-2637 Auth bypass in rhosp-director Critical 9.9
• CVE-2016-4474 Hardcoded credentials in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2021-31918 Information disclosure in tripleo-ansible High 7.5
• CVE-2013-1793 Hardcoded credentials in openstack-db program High 7.5

All Redhat Openstack vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38065, GHSA-5994-4pv5-xvvm, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38065.