1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5697-1

USN-5697-1: Barbican vulnerability

Publication date

25 October 2022

Overview

Barbican could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Releases

Packages

  • barbican - OpenStack Key Management Service - API Server

Details

Douglas Mendizabal discovered that Barbican incorrectly handled certain
query strings. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass
the access policy.

Douglas Mendizabal discovered that Barbican incorrectly handled certain
query strings. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass
the access policy.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.04 jammy python3-barbican –  2:14.0.0-0ubuntu1.1
20.04 focal python3-barbican –  1:10.1.0-0ubuntu2.2
18.04 bionic python-barbican –  1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1.2

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