CVE-2021-38155

Publication date 6 August 2021

Last updated 12 November 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

OpenStack Keystone 10.x through 16.x before 16.0.2, 17.x before 17.0.1, 18.x before 18.0.1, and 19.x before 19.0.1 allows information disclosure during account locking (related to PCI DSS features). By guessing the name of an account and failing to authenticate multiple times, any unauthenticated actor could both confirm the account exists and obtain that account's corresponding UUID, which might be leveraged for other unrelated attacks. All deployments enabling security_compliance.lockout_failure_attempts are affected.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Upstream keystone developers have rated this to be a low severity issue

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
keystone 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

fixed in 16.0.2, 17.0.1, 18.0.1, 19.0.1 fixed in (2:17.0.1-0ubuntu2) in focal-updates, but not yet in focal-security

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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