CVE-2014-0105
MEDIUM6.0EPSS 0.46%python-keystoneclient vulnerable to context confusion in Keystone auth_token middleware
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The auth_token middleware in the OpenStack Python client library for Keystone (aka python-keystoneclient) before 0.7.0 does not properly retrieve user tokens from memcache, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges in opportunistic circumstances via a large number of requests, related to an "interaction between eventlet and python-memcached."
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/keystonefrom 0, < 2013.1.1-2
- Debian/python-keystoneclientfrom 0, < 1:0.6.0-4
- PyPI/python-keystoneclientfrom 0, < 0.7.0
- PyPI/python-keystoneclientfrom 0, < 0.7.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
References (9)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0105
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0105
- PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/python-keystoneclient
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0382.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0409.html
- WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/python-keystoneclient/+bug/1282865
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/python-keystoneclient/PYSEC-2014-70.yaml
- WEBhttps://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/python-keystoneclient/+/81078
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/27/4