The TripleO Heat templates (tripleo-heat-templates) do not properly order the Identity…
Priority LOW 38CWE-200Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 2 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-200.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.02482 84th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial tripleo-heat-templates (PyPI): 0.8.7Red Hat: 1 advisoryRed Hat: 1 fixed, 2 without a fix
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| — | tripleo-heat-templates (PyPI) | before 0.8.7 | 0.8.7 | Patch available | GHSA-8936-44gw-7664 |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- tripleo-heat-templates (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 0.8.7 Fixed in 0.8.7 Patch available GHSA-8936-44gw-7664
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-8936-44gw-7664 tripleo-heat-templates (PyPI) Fixed in 0.8.7 Advisory →
Red Hat 1 advisory
- RHSA-2015:1862 Released 2015-10-08 · Red Hat rating ModerateRed Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 director update
- OpenStack 7.0 Director for RHEL 7 ahc-tools-0.1.1-6.el7ost, instack-undercloud-2.1.2-29.el7ost, openstack-ironic-discoverd-1.1.0-6.el7ost +14
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) Director | Affected | No fix yet |
| OpenStack 7.0 Director for RHEL 7 | Fixed | RHSA-2015:1862 |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2015-5271
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8936-44gw-7664
References
Other 8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261697
- https://launchpadlibrarian.net/217268516/CVE-2015-5271_puppet-swift.patch
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/+bug/1494896
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5271
- https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates
- https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/commit/?id=1730d95acdbee7c7bbcfe1eba8a48ef2b0cc1476
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tripleo-heat-templates/PYSEC-2016-34.yaml
- https://review.openstack.org/226541
Sources
- CVE-2015-5271 · CVE Program
- CVE-2015-5271 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-8936-44gw-7664 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2015-5271 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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