OpenStack Keystone's federated token rescoping mechanism doesn't propagate the original token's expiry to the newly issued token
GHSA-whqr-fgm5-x77q · CVE-2026-44394 · PYSEC-2026-603
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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.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44394
- WEB https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2150379
- PACKAGE https://github.com/openstack/keystone
- WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/keystone/PYSEC-2026-603.yaml
- WEB https://security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html
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