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CVE-2016-7404

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-06-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

OpenStack Magnum passes OpenStack credentials into the Heat templates creating its instances. While these should just be used for retrieving the instances' SSL certificates, they allow full API access, though and can be used to perform any API operation the user is authorized to perform.

Affected products

• OpenStack Magnum: all versions

References

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/magnum/+bug/1620536
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998182
• https://opendev.org/openstack/magnum/commit/0bb0d6486d6771ee21bbf897a091b1aa59e01b22
• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98467
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/magnum/+bug/1620536
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998182
• https://opendev.org/openstack/magnum/commit/0bb0d6486d6771ee21bbf897a091b1aa59e01b22
• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98467

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