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CVE-2016-9590 (GCVE-0-2016-9590)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-04-26 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:59
VLAI
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.
CWE
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95448 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
unspecified puppet-swift Affected: puppet-swift 8.2.1
Affected: puppet-swift 9.4.4
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Date Public
2017-01-12 00:00
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