Access Restriction Bypass Affecting python-keystoneclient package, versions [,0.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.29% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYTHONKEYSTONECLIENT-40024
  • published28 Mar 2014
  • disclosed28 Mar 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-0105  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade to version 0.7.0 or greater.

Overview

python-keystoneclient is a Client Library for OpenStack Identity 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."

CVSS Scores

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