A flaw was found in OpenStack keystonemiddleware and Keystone. The code incorrectly treats the presence of the X-Service-Token HTTP header as sufficient to skip enforcement of application credential access rules (and can skip related token-binding checks). An attacker who holds an application credential with access_rules can bypass those restrictions by sending any non-empty X-Service-Token value; a valid service token is not required for this bypass when delay_auth_decision is enabled (typical). This allows API calls beyond what the credential was designed to permit within the attacker's existing roles. Only installing fixed keystonemiddleware and Keystone packages remediates the issue.
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| Description | A flaw was found in OpenStack keystonemiddleware and Keystone. The code incorrectly treats the presence of the X-Service-Token HTTP header as sufficient to skip enforcement of application credential access rules (and can skip related token-binding checks). An attacker who holds an application credential with access_rules can bypass those restrictions by sending any non-empty X-Service-Token value; a valid service token is not required for this bypass when delay_auth_decision is enabled (typical). This allows API calls beyond what the credential was designed to permit within the attacker's existing roles. Only installing fixed keystonemiddleware and Keystone packages remediates the issue. | |
| Title | keystonemiddleware: keystonemiddleware: application credential access_rules bypass via X-Service-Token header presence check | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
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