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Ironic Standalone Operator's prometheus metrics exporter bound to all interfaces

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 18, 2026 in metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator • Updated May 29, 2026

Package

gomod github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator (Go)

Affected versions

< 0.9.0

Patched versions

0.9.0

Description

Impact

The Ironic Standalone Operator (IRSO) is the operator to maintain an Ironic deployment for Metal3. The Prometheus metrics exporter binds to 0.0.0.0 (all network interfaces) by default with no authentication. The default config is disabled. If enabled, this exposes operational metrics to any host on adjacent networks. Deployments running IrSO v0.7.0 through v0.8.1 with the Prometheus exporter enabled are affected. Versions prior to v0.7.0 do not have the Prometheus exporter feature.

Patches

The exporter now exposes a configurable bindAddress field. Users should upgrade to v0.9.0 or later.

Workarounds

Users on older versions than v0.9.0 should use host-level firewall rules (iptables/nftables) to restrict access to the metrics port from unintended networks, or disable the metrics service.

Resources

References

@tuminoid tuminoid published to metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator May 18, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 29, 2026
Reviewed May 29, 2026
Last updated May 29, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Adjacent
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

The product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-7cwm-fpfh-rrch

Source code

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