GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77q OpenStack Keystone's federated token rescoping mechanism doesn't propagate the original token's expiry to the newly issued token

MEDIUM Published 2026-05-28 Modified 2026-07-02 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-44394
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
keystone
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-863
Reviewed
2026-07-02

Affected packages

• PyPI keystone: >= 14.0.0, < 27.0.2 → fixed in 27.0.2 • PyPI keystone: >= 28.0.0, < 28.0.2 → fixed in 28.0.2 • PyPI keystone: >= 29.0.0, < 29.0.2 → fixed in 29.0.2

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-44394 An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References