MEDIUM6.5

PYSEC-2026-650

OpenStack Keystone Denial of Service vulnerability via a large HTTP request

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-650 — keystone: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'keystone>=8.0.0a0'

Details

OpenStack Keystone Grizzly before 2013.1, Folsom, and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large HTTP request, as demonstrated by a long tenant_name when requesting a token.

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Affected packages

PyPI/keystone

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 8.0.0a0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'keystone>=8.0.0a0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0270[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/7691276b869a86c2b75631d5bede9f61e030d9d8[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/82c87e5638ebaf9f166a9b07a0155291276d6fdc[WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0270[WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1099025[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909012[WEB]
https://launchpad.net/keystone/grizzly/2013.1[WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0708.html[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/keystone[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4ppj-4p4v-jf4p[ADVISORY]