RHSA-2026:39811 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openstack-ironic is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Services on OpenShift 18.0 (Antelope).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift 18.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2466844 - CVE-2026-42997 OpenStack Ironic: OpenStack Ironic: Information disclosure via credential forwarding during mold import

CVEs

• CVE-2026-42997

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important