GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77qMediumCVSS 6.0

OpenStack Keystone's federated token rescoping mechanism doesn't propagate the original token's expiry to the newly issued token

Published
May 28, 2026
Last Modified
July 2, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products3

  • pip/keystone:>= 14.0.0, < 27.0.2
  • pip/keystone:>= 28.0.0, < 28.0.2
  • pip/keystone:>= 29.0.0, < 29.0.2

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