CVE-2012-3447

Openstack Folsom < 12.0.0 - Access Control

Title source: rule

Description

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-3361.

References (8)

[Issue Tracking] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1031311

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845106

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77539

[Exploit, Patch] https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ce4b2e27be45a85b310237615c47eb53f37bb5f3

[Exploit, Patch] https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d9577ce9f266166a297488445b5b0c93c1ddb368

[Various Sources] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/10953/

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54869

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/07/1

Scores

EPSS 0.0092

EPSS Percentile 75.8%

Classification

CWE

CWE-264

Status draft

Affected Products (3)

openstack/folsom

openstack/nova

pypi/nova < 12.0.0PyPI

Timeline

Published Aug 20, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026