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Credentials Management Errors

CVE-2012-5563

Medium
4/10

Summary

OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom 2012.2, does not properly implement token expiration, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended authorization restrictions by creating new tokens through token chaining. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2012-3426 regression.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-255 - Credentials Management Errors

Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of credentials.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published