RHEL 9 : Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift 18.0 (openstack-ironic) (RHSA-2026:39811)

high Nessus Plugin ID 327030

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift 18.0 (openstack- ironic).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:39811 advisory.

Ironic is a project which aims to provision bare metal (as opposed to virtual) machines by leveraging common technologies such as PXE boot and IPMI to cover a wide range of hardware, while supporting pluggable drivers to allow vendor-specific functionality to be added.

Security Fix(es):

* Ironic: OpenStack Ironic: Information disclosure via credential forwarding during mold import (CVE-2026-42997)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift 18.0 (openstack-ironic) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:39811.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 327030

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-39811.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/15/2026

Updated: 7/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.19

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42997

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-ironic-api, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-ironic-conductor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-ironic-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-ironic

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-42997

CWE: 201

RHSA: 2026:39811

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