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CVE-2016-9590

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9590 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in puppet-swift versions prior to 8.2.1 and 9.4.4, affecting Red Hat OpenStack Platform director's Object Storage (swift) installations. During deployment, the Puppet script incorrectly sets world-readable permissions on the proxy-server.conf file. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to remotely access sensitive information (C:H) with low attack complexity (AC:L), but does not impact integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.0.0, < 8.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:puppet-swift:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.0.0, < 9.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:puppet-swift:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0115 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 21,924 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)Fixed in: puppet-swift-0:9.4.3-3.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)Fixed in: openstack-puppet-modules-1:7.1.5-2.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)Fixed in: openstack-puppet-modules-1:8.1.10-2.el7ost
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-9590Moderate

puppet-swift: installs config file with world readable permissions

Jan 12, 2017

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0200.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0359.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0361.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95448
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry