CVE-2012-5563
OpenStack Keystone, as used in OpenStack Folsom 2012.2, does not properly implement token expiration, which allows remote authenticated…
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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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 55 days later
· 55 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIkeystoneGHSA-w66p-78g4-mr7g (opens in a new tab)
References (11)
- RHSA-2012:1557 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121128 [OSSA 2012-018] EC2-style credentials invalidation issue (CVE-2012-5571) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/38c7e46a640a94da4da89a39a5a1ea9c081f1eb5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 56727 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-1641-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/f9d4766249a72d8f88d75dcf1575b28dd3496681 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121128 [OSSA 2012-019] Extension of token validity through token chaining (CVE-2012-5563) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1079216 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 51423 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- folsom-tokens-security-bypass(80370) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 51436 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w66p-78g4-mr7g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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