CVE-2016-9590

MEDIUM

puppet-swift < 8.2.1 - Sensitive Information Exposure via World-Readable Configuration File

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0359.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95448

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0361.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0200.html

Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9590

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0028

EPSS Percentile 51.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Products (4)

openstack/puppet-swift 8.0.0 - 8.2.1

redhat/openstack 8

redhat/openstack 9

redhat/openstack 10

Published Apr 26, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026