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🛡️ CVE-2026-54423 on Ubuntu — ironic

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

In OpenStack Ironic before 37.0.1, an Ironic user with the ability to deploy nodes using the IPMI management interface can maliciously use the send_raw step to send arbitrary IPMI commands to a node, bypassing Ironic's access control.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-54423 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package ironic. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-54423 is classified as CWE-424: Improper Protection of Alternate Path. The product does not sufficiently protect all possible paths that a user can take to access restricted functionality or resources.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-54423 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ironic

Timeline and source

Published on 10 July 2026 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
security.openstack.org (Report)

Other advisories for this package

ironic has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-424: Improper Protection of Alternate Path) in other software:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ironic — —

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