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medium 4.3

CVE-2016-9185 json

In OpenStack Heat, by launching a new Heat stack with a local URL an authenticated user may conduct network discovery revealing internal ne…

published 2016-11-04 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-10001

cvss
4.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In OpenStack Heat, by launching a new Heat stack with a local URL an authenticated user may conduct network discovery revealing internal network configuration. Affected versions are <=5.0.3, >=6.0.0 <=6.1.0, and ==7.0.0.

Patch / fix

  • heat Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:7.0.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9185

  • openstack-heat openstack 8 1:5.0.3-2.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api openstack 8 1:5.0.3-2.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-common openstack 8 1:5.0.3-2.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-engine openstack 8 1:5.0.3-2.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cfn openstack 8 1:5.0.3-2.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch openstack 8 1:5.0.3-2.el7ost
  • openstack-heat openstack 9 1:6.1.0-3.el7ost
  • python-heat-tests openstack 9 1:6.1.0-3.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:1456RHSA-2017:1464RHSA-2017:1450

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-9185 updated cvss 3.5

openstack-heat: Template source URL allows network port scan

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) openstack-heat Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) openstack-heat
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 openstack-heat 2015.1.4-3.el7ost, openstack-heat-api 2015.1.4-3.el7ost, openstack-heat-common 2015.1.4-3.el7ost, openstack-heat-engine 2015.1.4-3.el7ost, openstack-heat-api-cfn 2015.1.4-3.el7ost, openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch 2015.1.4-3.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1450
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) openstack-heat 5.0.3-2.el7ost, openstack-heat-api 5.0.3-2.el7ost, openstack-heat-common 5.0.3-2.el7ost, openstack-heat-engine 5.0.3-2.el7ost, openstack-heat-api-cfn 5.0.3-2.el7ost, openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch 5.0.3-2.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1456
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 openstack-heat 6.1.0-3.el7ost, python-heat-tests 6.1.0-3.el7ost, openstack-heat-api 6.1.0-3.el7ost, openstack-heat-common 6.1.0-3.el7ost, openstack-heat-engine 6.1.0-3.el7ost, openstack-heat-api-cfn 6.1.0-3.el7ost, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1464
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) openstack-heat, python-heat-tests, openstack-heat-api, openstack-heat-common, openstack-heat-engine, openstack-heat-api-cfn, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.