CVE-2026-40683 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 14.04.2026 Published: 14.04.2026 Updated: 14.04.2026

In OpenStack Keystone before 28.0.1, the LDAP identity backend does not convert the user enabled attribute to a boolean when the user_enabled_invert configuration option is False (the default). The _ldap_res_to_model method in the UserApi class only performed string-to-boolean conversion when user_enabled_invert was True. When False, the raw string value from LDAP (e.g., "FALSE") was used directly. Since non-empty strings are truthy in Python, users marked as disabled in LDAP were treated as enabled by Keystone, allowing them to authenticate and perform actions. All deployments using the LDAP identity backend without user_enabled_invert=True or user_enabled_emulation are affected.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.7

Product Status

Vendor OpenStack
Product Keystone
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8.0.0 to 25.0.1 (excl.)
  • affected from 26.0.0 to 26.1.1 (excl.)
  • affected from 27.0.0 to 27.0.1 (excl.)
  • affected from 28.0.0 to 28.0.1 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') CWE