CVE-2012-3360

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Essex and Folsom - Authenticated Path Traversal via Disk Image File Path Attribute

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when used over libvirt-based hypervisors, allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary files to the disk image via a .. (dot dot) in the path attribute of a file element.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/49763
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/49802
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1

Scores

EPSS 0.0138
EPSS Percentile 80.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (3)
openstack/essex 2012.1
openstack/folsom 2012.2
pypi/nova 0 - 12.0.0a0PyPI
Published Jul 22, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026