HIGH8.1

PYSEC-2026-786

Barbican authorization flaw before v14.0.0

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-786 — barbican: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'barbican>=14.0.0'

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI/barbican

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 14.0.0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'barbican>=14.0.0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23451[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/openstack/barbican/commit/7d270bacbe29a90a10f1855abc3b50dac0f08022[WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5114[WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8874[WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23451[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022878[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025089[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/barbican[PACKAGE]
https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/barbican/+/811236[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/barbican[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p2jg-q8hw-p7gc[ADVISORY]