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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-12692

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0. The EC2 API doesn't have a signature TTL check for AWS Signature V4. An attacker can sniff the Authorization header, and then use it to reissue an OpenStack token an unlimited number of times.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:49 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-12692

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 May 2020, 00:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0. The EC2 API doesn't have a signature TTL check for AWS Signature V4. An attacker can sniff the Authorization header, and then use it to reissue an OpenStack token an unlimited number of times.

osv:CVE-2020-12692
Complete source record
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