CVE-2014-0105

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-255

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 products

OpenStack Python-Keystoneclient: through 0.4.2; 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0382.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0409.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/27/4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-keystoneclient/+bug/1282865
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0382.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0409.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/27/4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-keystoneclient/+bug/1282865

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