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CVE-2016-4985

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4985 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the ironic-api service of OpenStack Ironic, affecting versions before 4.2.5 (Liberty) and 5.x before 5.1.2 (Mitaka), including Canonical and Red Hat distributions. An unauthenticated remote attacker can obtain sensitive node information by sending a crafted POST request to the vendor_passthru resource, provided they know a registered node's MAC address. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.0 score of 7.5 (High), indicating high confidentiality impact with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 4.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:openstack_ironic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:openstack_ironic:5.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:openstack_ironic:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0284 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ironicFixed in: 4.2.5
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ironicFixed in: 5.1.2
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: openstack-ironic-0:2015.1.2-4.el7ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)Fixed in: openstack-ironic-1:4.2.5-1.el7ost
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno)Fixed in: openstack-ironic

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-f7cr-7c2c-fm8rhigh

OpenStack Ironic Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2016-4985Moderate

openstack-ironic: Ironic Node information including credentials exposed to unauthenticated users

Jun 21, 2016

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:1377
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:1378
bugs.launchpad.net / ironic/+bug/1572796
Vendor Advisory
review.openstack.org / 332195
review.openstack.org / 332196
review.openstack.org / 332197
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/21/6