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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2016-9590)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0200 advisory.

    puppet-swift is the Puppet module used by Red Hat OpenStack Platform director to install OpenStack Object     Storage (swift).

    Security Fix(es):

    * An information-disclosure flaw was discovered 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.
    (CVE-2016-9590)

    Red Hat would like to thank Hans Feldt (Ericsson) for reporting this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0359 advisory.

    openstack-puppet-modules provides a collection of Puppet modules which Red Hat OpenStack Platform director     uses to install and configure OpenStack.

    Security Fix(es):

    * An information-disclosure flaw was discovered 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.
    (CVE-2016-9590)

    Red Hat would like to thank Hans Feldt (Ericsson) for reporting this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
251491	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-9590	Nessus	Misc.	medium
210216	RHEL 7 : puppet-swift (RHSA-2017:0200)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
210190	RHEL 7 : openstack-puppet-modules (RHSA-2017:0359)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2016-9590

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Tenable Plugins

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