CVE-2025-44021: Openstack Ironic

Low severity, CVSS 2.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenStack Ironic before 29.0.1 can write unintended files to a target node disk during image handling (if a deployment was performed via the API). A malicious project assigned as a node owner can provide a path to any local file (readable by ironic-conductor), which may then be written to the target node disk. This is difficult to exploit in practice, because a node deployed in this manner should never reach the ACTIVE state, but it still represents a danger in environments running with non-default, insecure configurations such as with automated cleaning disabled. The fixed versions are 24.1.3, 26.1.1, and 29.0.1.

Affected products

• Openstack Ironic: from 24, before 24.1.3 (fixed in 24.1.3); from 25, before 26.1.1 (fixed in 26.1.1); from 27, before 29.0.1 (fixed in 29.0.1)

Published 2025-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.