CVE-2026-44394 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 28.05.2026 Updated: 28.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 6

Product Status

Vendor OpenStack
Product Keystone
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 14.0.0 to 27.0.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 28.0.0 to 28.0.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 29.0.0 to 29.0.2 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization CWE