GHSA-gwvq-rgqf-993fLowCVSS 6.0

python-keystoneclient vulnerable to context confusion in Keystone auth_token middleware

Published
May 17, 2022
Last Modified
October 25, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A context confusion vulnerability was identified in Keystone auth_token middleware (shipped in python-keystoneclient) before 0.7.0. By doing repeated requests, with sufficient load on the target system, an authenticated user may in certain situations assume another authenticated user's complete identity and multi-tenant authorizations, potentially resulting in a privilege escalation. Note that it is related to a bad interaction between eventlet and python-memcached that should be avoided if the calling process already monkey-patches "thread" to use eventlet. Only keystone middleware setups using auth_token with memcache are vulnerable.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/python-keystoneclient:<= 0.6.0

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