CVE-2012-1572

Publication date 27 March 2012

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

OpenStack Keystone: extremely long passwords can crash Keystone by exhausting stack space

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
keystone 12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric Ignored
11.04 natty Not in release
10.10 maverick Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

Keystone on 11.10 is a pre-release version and unusable with other components such as nova and horizon

Patch details

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Package Patch details
keystone

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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