Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 26, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-9590

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.

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Affected products

Red Hat/OpenStack Platform directorllm-create
Range: <8.2.1, <9.4.4
Red Hat/Object Storage (swift)llm-create
Range: <8.2.1, <9.4.4
unspecified/puppet-swiftv5
Range: puppet-swift 8.2.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0200.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0359.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0361.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95448nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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