CVE-2026-44394: Openstack Keystone

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone federated token rescoping mechanism does not propagate the original token's expiry to the newly issued token. When a federated user rescopes a token via POST /v3/auth/tokens, the handle_scoped_token() function in the mapped authentication plugin returns response data without an expires_at value. The token provider falls back to issuing a token with a fresh default TTL. By rescoping repeatedly before each token expires, a user can maintain access indefinitely, bypassing operator-configured token lifetime policies. This is a variant of CVE-2012-3426. Only deployments using federated identity (SAML2, OpenID Connect) are affected.

Affected products

• Openstack Keystone: from 14.0.0, before 27.0.2 (fixed in 27.0.2); from 28.0.0, before 28.0.2 (fixed in 28.0.2); from 29.0.0, before 29.0.2 (fixed in 29.0.2)

Published 2026-05-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.