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

mediumCVSS 6CVE-2026-44394
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.

Details

Source
GitHub Security Advisories (INTL · database · site)
Severity
medium — CVSS 6
Published
2026-05-28
Last updated
2026-07-02
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77q

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Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2026-44394coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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