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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2026-44394 EUVD-2026-33243GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77qPYSEC-2026-603

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

Published May 28, 2026 · Updated May 28, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenStack Keystone 14.0.0 – < 27.0.2, 28.0.0 – < 28.0.2, 29.0.0 – < 29.0.2 27.0.2

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 keystone 2:29.0.1-2 —
Debian 13 keystone 2:27.0.0-3+deb13u4 —
Debian 12 keystone 2:22.0.2-0+deb12u3 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS keystone 2:29.0.0-0ubuntu1.2 —
Ubuntu 25.10 keystone 2:28.0.0-0ubuntu1.3 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS keystone 2:25.0.0-0ubuntu1.4 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS keystone 2:21.0.1-0ubuntu2.4 —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS keystone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS keystone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS keystone No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI keystone >= 14.0.0, < 27.0.2 27.0.2 GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77q
PyPI keystone >= 28.0.0, < 28.0.2 28.0.2 GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77q
PyPI keystone >= 29.0.0, < 29.0.2 29.0.2 GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77q
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 PYSEC-2026-603

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