CVE-2012-3360
N/A
Published: July 22, 2012 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorFolsomEssex
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (9)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/49763Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/49802x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22
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