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medium 6.0

CVE-2026-44394 json

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

published 2026-05-28 5 mo ago modified 2026-10-26 14 d ago also GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77q , PYSEC-2026-603 , EUVD-2026-33243

cvss
6.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi keystone 27.0.2, 28.0.2, 29.0.2
  • OpenStack Keystone 27.0.2, 28.0.2, 29.0.2
  • keystone Debian 12 2:22.0.2-0+deb12u3
  • keystone Debian 13 2:27.0.0-3+deb13u4
  • keystone Debian 14 2:29.0.1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44394

  • keystone Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:21.0.1-0ubuntu2.4
  • keystone Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 2:25.0.0-0ubuntu1.4
  • keystone Ubuntu 25.10 2:28.0.0-0ubuntu1.3
  • keystone Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 2:29.0.0-0ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44394

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-44394 updated cvss 4.9

openstack-keystone: OpenStack Keystone: Federated token rescoping allows indefinite access

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) rhosp13/openstack-keystone Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 python3-keystone, openstack-keystone, rhosp-rhel8/openstack-keystone Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 python3-keystone, openstack-keystone, rhosp-rhel9/openstack-keystone Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 openstack-keystone, rhoso/openstack-keystone-rhel9
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.launchpad.net https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2150379 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
OSV 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi keystone
>=14.0.0, <27.0.2
>=28.0.0, <28.0.2
>=29.0.0, <29.0.2
27.0.2
28.0.2
29.0.2

Affected products

  • OpenStack Keystone

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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