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.
Problem types
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
Product status
14.0.0 (semver) before 27.0.2
28.0.0 (semver) before 28.0.2
29.0.0 (semver) before 29.0.2
References
bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/2150379
security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-2026-015.html