CVE-2014-2828
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.86%OpenStack Identity (Keystone) DoS through V3 API authentication chaining
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The V3 API in OpenStack Identity (Keystone) 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of the same authentication method in a request, aka "authentication chaining."
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/keystonefrom 0, < 2014.1-1
- PyPI/keystonefrom 0, < 8.0.0a0
- PyPI/keystonefrom 0, < 8.0.0a0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (10)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2828
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2828
- PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/keystone
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1688.html
- WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1300274
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/ce6cedb30c5c4b4cf4db9380f09443de22414b39
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/e364ba5b12de8e4c11bd80bcca903f9615dcfc2e
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/keystone/commit/ef868ad92c00e23a4a5e9eb71e3e0bf5ae2fff0c
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/keystone/PYSEC-2014-106.yaml
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/10/20