1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5387-1

USN-5387-1: Barbican vulnerabilities

Publication date

25 April 2022

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in barbican.

Releases

Packages

  • barbican - OpenStack Key Management Service - API Server

Details

Douglas Mendizábal discovered that Barbican incorrectly handled access
restrictions. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to
consume protected resources and possibly cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-23451, CVE-2022-23452)

Douglas Mendizábal discovered that Barbican incorrectly handled access
restrictions. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to
consume protected resources and possibly cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-23451, CVE-2022-23452)

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
21.10 impish python3-barbican –  2:13.0.0-0ubuntu1.2
20.04 focal python3-barbican –  1:10.1.0-0ubuntu2.1
18.04 bionic python-barbican –  1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1.1

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