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medium 6.5

CVE-2016-9590 json

puppet-swift before versions 8.2.1, 9.4.4 is vulnerable to an information-disclosure in Red Hat OpenStack Platform director's installation…

published 2018-04-26 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-10394

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • openstack puppet-swift 8.2.1, 9.4.4
  • puppet-module-swift Debian 13, Debian 12 9.4.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9590

  • puppet-module-swift Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 9.4.4-1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9590

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • openstack-puppet-modules openstack 9 1:8.1.10-2.el7ost
  • openstack-puppet-modules openstack 8 1:7.1.5-2.el7ost
  • puppet-swift openstack 10 9.4.3-3.el7ost

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0359RHSA-2017:0361RHSA-2017:0200

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-2016-9590 updated cvss 6.5

puppet-swift: installs config file with world readable permissions

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) openstack-puppet-modules 7.1.5-2.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0361
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 openstack-puppet-modules 8.1.10-2.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0359
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 puppet-swift 9.4.3-3.el7ost
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0200
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) openstack-puppet-modules Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) puppet-swift
    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

1.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • unspecified puppet-swift

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.