CVE-2014-0105

2014-04-1500:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.003

Percentile

71.2%

JSON

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.”

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	According to upstream, this is difficult to reliably attack since it is dependent on server interactions code present in keystone in Essex and Folsom, python-keystoneclient in Grizzly and higher