CVE-2026-44394

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 66/100
Published: 2026-05-28 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: None

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
openstack keystone 14.0.0 – 27.0.2

References & Advisories (2)

Bug Bounty Relevance

66 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.1 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.25%
Raw Score 0.002490
Percentile 16.3%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00249
2026-10-28
0.00249

Intelligence Sources

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