CVE-2012-3360

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    CVE-2012-3360

    Published: 22 Jul 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://secunia.com/advisories/49763, http://secunia.com/advisories/49802, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1, https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9, https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7, https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277, https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531, https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High