CVE-2017-16613
An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object…
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- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in middleware.py in OpenStack Swauth through 1.2.0 when used with OpenStack Swift through 2.15.1. The Swift object store and proxy server are saving (unhashed) tokens retrieved from the Swauth middleware authentication mechanism to a log file as part of a GET URI. This allows attackers to bypass authentication by inserting a token into an X-Auth-Token header of a new request. NOTE: github.com/openstack/swauth URLs do not mean that Swauth is maintained by an official OpenStack project team.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.6% · top 4.9% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIswauthGHSA-qhq8-xwqv-pvv9 (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- 101926 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882314 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4044 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1655781 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/swauth/commit/70af7986265a3defea054c46efc82d0698917298 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-qhq8-xwqv-pvv9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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