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CVE-2022-23452 — barbican

MEDIUMFix: openstack/barbican@6c841b2

CVE-2022-23452 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.9) CWE-863 vulnerability in barbican. A fix is available for barbican — see the affected versions and patch details below.

openstack-barbican Denial of Service vulnerability

Also known asGHSA-6p2h-rjj7-2j63PYSEC-2026-785
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 2, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.3%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs70th percentile — riskier than 70% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.60%1.20%1.79%0.4%1.3%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🐍barbican

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Description

An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican, where anyone with an admin role could add secrets to a different project container. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to consume protected resources and cause a denial of service.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐍PyPIbarbicanall versions14.0.0pip install --upgrade 'barbican==14.0.0'

Affected Products

2 products · 2 configurations
Application
barbicanopenstack
< 14.0.0
range
Application
openstack platformredhat
1 version
16.1

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for barbican, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update barbican to 14.0.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2022-23452 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatModerate
ProductFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1openstack-barbican-0:9.0.1-1.20220916133702.07be198.el8ostRHSA-2022:8874
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2openstack-barbican-0:9.0.2-2.20220122185348.c718783.el8ostRHSA-2022:5114
UbuntuMEDIUM
USN-5387-1Ubuntu

Frequently Asked Questions

An authorization flaw was found in openstack-barbican, where anyone with an admin role could add secrets to a different project container. This flaw allows an attacker on the network to consume protected resources and cause a denial of service.
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CVE-2022-23452: barbican DoS — Fixed in 14.0.0