CWE Code: 255
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 6.0
CWE Name:  Credentials Management
Summary: 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."
Access Authentication: SINGLE
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Access Vector: NETWORK
Impact (C/I/A): PARTIAL/PARTIAL/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2014-04-15
Last Modified Date: 2017-12-16