Insecure Token Retrieval in OpenStack Python Client Library for Keystone

CVE-2014-0105 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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."

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