Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenStack Nova would sometimes respond with variable times when comparing authentication tokens. If nova were configured to proxy metadata requests via Neutron, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to conduct timing attacks and ascertain configuration details of another instance.
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