Information disclosure in OpenStack Puppet-Swift

CVE-2016-9590

puppet-swift before versions 8.2.1, 9.4.4 is vulnerable to an information-disclosure in Red Hat OpenStack Platform director's installation of Object Storage (swift). During installation, the Puppet script responsible for deploying the service incorrectly removes and recreates the proxy-server.conf file with world-readable permissions.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.6th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2016-9590: held from 0.012 to 0.011.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.011 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9590?
CVE-2016-9590 is a medium-severity vulnerability in OpenStack Puppet-Swift, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-04-26.
How severe is CVE-2016-9590?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.