GHSA-w66p-78g4-mr7g CVE-2012-5563 PYSEC-2012-20
OpenStack Keystone Insufficient token expiration
Medium
PyPI
- Severity
- 0.0 / 10
- Medium · CVSS 4.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 2.86%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 86.77% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Fix
8.0.0- Upgrade keystone to this version or later
Description
OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom 2012.2, does not properly implement token expiration, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended authorization restrictions by creating new tokens through token chaining. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2012-3426 regression.
Affected versions
PyPI
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
keystone PyPI → 8.0.0
- pip
pip install --upgrade "keystone>=8.0.0"- poetry
poetry add "keystone>=8.0.0"- uv
uv add "keystone>=8.0.0"
Severity breakdown
CVSS 4.0 0.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
- None
- Integrity (vulnerable system)
- High
- Availability (vulnerable system)
- None
- Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
- None
- Integrity (subsequent systems)
- None
- Availability (subsequent systems)
- None
CVSS 3.1 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Weakness
CWE-324: Use of a Key Past its Expiration Date
The product uses a cryptographic key or password past its expiration date, which diminishes its safety significantly by increasing the timing window for cracking attacks against that key.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Adequate consideration should be put in to the user interface in order to notify users previous to the key's expiration, to explain the importance of new key generation and to walk users through the process as painlessly as possible.
CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization
The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) [REF-229] to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries. Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the same role.
- Architecture and Design: Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records. For example, a database may restrict access for medical records to a specific database user, but each record might only be intended to be accessible to the patient and the patient's doctor [REF-7].
- Architecture and Design: Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid. For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
- Architecture and Design: For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page. One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests that are accompanied by an active and authenticated session token associated with a user who has the required permissions to access that page.
- System Configuration, Installation: Use the access control capabilities of your operating system and server environment and define your access control lists accordingly. Use a "default deny" policy when defining these ACLs.
References
Advisories
Packages
Other links
- github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/38c7e46a640a94da4da89a39a5a1ea9c081f1eb5
- github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/f9d4766249a72d8f88d75dcf1575b28dd3496681
- bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1079216
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80370
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/keystone/PYSEC-2012-20.yaml
- web.archive.org/web/20121201003009/http://secunia.com/advisories/51423
- web.archive.org/web/20140802122732/http://secunia.com/advisories/51436
- web.archive.org/web/20200228144943/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56727
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1557.html
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/28/5
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/28/6
- ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1641-1
- securityfocus.com/bid/56727
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77q OpenStack Keystone's federated token rescoping mechanism doesn't propagate the original token's expiry to the newly issued token | High | Also affects keystone |
| GHSA-q623-f4j4-p4xj OpenStack Keystone has an Incorrect Authorization issue | High | Also affects keystone |
| GHSA-2r23-2g6v-2m5f OpenStack Keystone has an Authorization Bypass | High | Also affects keystone |
| GHSA-8f8m-wrvr-wcvf OpenStack Keystone doesn't verify that the user supplied in the authentication request matches the owner of the application credential | High | Also affects keystone |
| GHSA-hhq2-3832-xxcv OpenStack Keystone has an Incorrect Authorization Issue | High | Also affects keystone |
| GHSA-pfx2-9x9m-7ghx OpenStack Keystone: LDAP identity backend does not convert enabled attribute to boolean | High | Also affects keystone |
| GHSA-4phw-6824-6cfp OpenStack Keystone: Restricted application credentials can create EC2 credentials | Medium | Also affects keystone |
| GHSA-hcqg-5g63-7j9h OpenStack Keystone allows /v3/ec2tokens or /v3/s3tokens request with valid AWS Signature to provide Keystone authorization. | High | Also affects keystone |
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