CVE-2026-115638: CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in OpenStack Ironic
Description
OpenStack Ironic through 39.0.1 allows a denial of service via a configdrive that results in a very large amount of uncompressed data, aka a gzip bomb.
CVSS v3.1
Score 4.3medium
Affected software
OpenStack
Ironic
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- mitre
- Date Reserved
- 2026-10-23T03:21:16.440Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6adad86f4d27ba8daac4e44b
Added to database: 10/23/2026, 03:45:51 UTC
Last updated: 10/23/2026, 03:45:51 UTC
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