CVE-2016-4985
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.79%OpenStack Ironic Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4985
Description
The ironic-api service in OpenStack Ironic before 4.2.5 (Liberty) and 5.x before 5.1.2 (Mitaka) allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about a registered node by leveraging knowledge of the MAC address of a network card belonging to that node and sending a crafted POST request to the v1/drivers/$DRIVER_NAME/vendor_passthru resource.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/ironicfrom 0, < 1:5.1.2-1
- PyPI/ironicfrom 0, < 4.2.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (15)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4985
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4985
- PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/ironic
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1377
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1378
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4985
- WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1572796
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346193
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/ironic/commit/426a306fb580762e97ada04e1253dedd9b64d410
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/ironic/commit/affec224977174581d19a2b914772cb0409f633e
- WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/ironic/commit/f5a3ff1dfcde068769f9a2a477ba6a9edaf69c77
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/332195
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/332196
- WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/332197
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/21/6