CVE-2012-5563
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.0
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| forky | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openstack | folsom | 2012.2 | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1557.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51423
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51436
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/28/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/28/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56727
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1641-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1079216
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80370
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/38c7e46a640a94da4da89a39a5a1ea9c081f1eb5
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/f9d4766249a72d8f88d75dcf1575b28dd3496681
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5563
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/keystone/PYSEC-2012-20.yaml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121201003009/http://secunia.com/advisories/51423
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140802122732/http://secunia.com/advisories/51436
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228144943/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56727
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5563
CWEs
CWE-255
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.