CVE-2014-0105: Openstack Python-Keystoneclient

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

  • Openstack Python-Keystoneclient: up to and including 0.4.2; version 0.2.2 only; version 0.2.3 only; version 0.2.4 only; version 0.3.0 only; version 0.3.1 only; …

Published 2014-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.