CVE-2020-1690: Red Hat Openstack-Selinux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An improper authorization flaw was discovered in openstack-selinux's applied policy where it does not prevent a non-root user in a container from privilege escalation. A non-root attacker in one or more Red Hat OpenStack (RHOSP) containers could send messages to the dbus. With access to the dbus, the attacker could start or stop services, possibly causing a denial of service. Versions before openstack-selinux 0.8.24 are affected.

Affected products

• Red Hat Openstack-Selinux: before 0.8.24 (fixed in 0.8.24)
• Red Hat Openstack Platform: version 15.0 only; version 16.1 only

Published 2021-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.