An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone federated token rescoping mechanism does not propagate the original token's expiry to the newly issued token. When a federated user rescopes a token via POST /v3/auth/tokens, the handle_scoped_token() function in the mapped authentication plugin returns response data without an expires_at value. The token provider falls back to issuing a token with a fresh default TTL. By rescoping repeatedly before each token expires, a user can maintain access indefinitely, bypassing operator-configured token lifetime policies. This is a variant of CVE-2012-3426. Only deployments using federated identity (SAML2, OpenID Connect) are affected.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 14.0.0, < 27.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 28.0.0, < 28.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 29.0.0, < 29.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
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