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CVE-2016-9599

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

puppet-tripleo before versions 5.5.0, 6.2.0 is vulnerable to an access-control flaw in the IPtables rules management, which allowed the creation of TCP/UDP rules with empty port values. If SSL is enabled, a malicious user could use these open ports to gain access to unauthorized resources.

Affected products

• OpenStack Puppet-Tripleo: 5.5.0, 6.2.0
• OpenStack: 10

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0025.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9599
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0025.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9599

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