CVE-2012-3426 OpenStack Keystone token expiration issues

What is CVE-2012-3426?

CVE-2012-3426 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 31 Jul 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenStack Keystone before 2012.1.1, as used in OpenStack Folsom before Folsom-1 and OpenStack Essex, does not properly implement token expiration, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended authorization restrictions by (1) creating new tokens through token chaining, (2) leveraging possession of a token for a disabled user account, or (3) leveraging possession of a token for an account with a changed password.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3426?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including Keystone and keystone. It affects 3 products.

Products include Openstack Essex, Openstack Horizon, Openstack Keystone.

How do I fix CVE-2012-3426?

Upgrade Keystone to 8.0.0a0 or later.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2012-3426 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3426 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2013-0261 Packstack: packstack: arbitrary file overwrite via symlink attack High 8.8
• CVE-2013-0266 Information disclosure in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) Medium 5.5
• CVE-2012-4573 OpenStack Glance arbitrary deletion of non-protected images Medium 5.5
• CVE-2012-5482 OpenStack Glance arbitrary deletion of non-protected images Medium 5.5
• CVE-2012-3360 OpenStack Nova Directory traversal vulnerability Medium 5.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3426, GHSA-xp97-6w7r-4cjc.