PublicCVE

CVE-2026-50221

MEDIUM5.3JSON exportCreate alert

Description

In OpenStack Swift before 2.37.2, proxy-server does not strip internal update headers (X-Container-Host, X-Container-Device, X-Delete-At-Host, X-Delete-At-Device) from client requests before forwarding them to object-servers. An authenticated user with write access can inject these headers to redirect container update requests to an attacker-controlled server, enabling server-side request forgery. The SSRF requests expose internal cluster metadata including storage policy indexes, partition mappings, device names, and when at rest encryption is enabled, cipher text and initialization vectors for the container-level encryption key. The attacker can also cause "ghost listings" in arbitrary containers via the shard-range redirect mechanism.

CVSS breakdown

CVSS 4.0
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality (Vulnerable System)
Low
Integrity (Vulnerable System)
Low
Availability (Vulnerable System)
Low
Confidentiality (Subsequent System)
Low
Integrity (Subsequent System)
Low
Availability (Subsequent System)
None

Affected products