CVE-2015-5271

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The TripleO Heat templates (tripleo-heat-templates) do not properly order the Identity Service (keystone) before the OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) staticweb middleware in the swiftproxy pipeline when the staticweb middleware is enabled, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from private containers via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

openstack/tripleo-heat-templates.: all versions
OpenStack: 7.0

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1862
https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/+bug/1494896
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261697
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/217268516/CVE-2015-5271_puppet-swift.patch
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1862
https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/+bug/1494896
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261697
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/217268516/CVE-2015-5271_puppet-swift.patch

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