Description
A flaw was found in OpenStack Keystone where delegation boundary enforcement is incomplete across trust, application credential, and OAuth1 authorization endpoints. Tokens obtained via delegated authentication methods, such as OAuth1 access tokens or custom Keystone authentication plugins, can perform operations beyond their intended scope because endpoint guards only recognized specific delegation types rather than using a comprehensive allowlist. This allows creating trusts that delegate roles beyond the token's authorized scope, creating persistent application credentials, and authorizing new OAuth1 delegations. These derived credentials persist independently and survive revocation of the original credential, enabling an attacker with a compromised narrow-scope credential to escalate to the user's full privileges and maintain persistent access.
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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:45:00 +0000
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| Description | A flaw was found in OpenStack Keystone where delegation boundary enforcement is incomplete across trust, application credential, and OAuth1 authorization endpoints. Tokens obtained via delegated authentication methods, such as OAuth1 access tokens or custom Keystone authentication plugins, can perform operations beyond their intended scope because endpoint guards only recognized specific delegation types rather than using a comprehensive allowlist. This allows creating trusts that delegate roles beyond the token's authorized scope, creating persistent application credentials, and authorizing new OAuth1 delegations. These derived credentials persist independently and survive revocation of the original credential, enabling an attacker with a compromised narrow-scope credential to escalate to the user's full privileges and maintain persistent access. | |
| Title | keystone: keystone: Delegated token scope restrictions not consistently enforced across trust, OAuth1, and application credential endpoints | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
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Updated: 2026-08-26T02:15:16Z
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