In short
- CVE-2012-3360 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting nova, essex (openstack), folsom (openstack).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.0%, higher than 87.5% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 12.0.0a0 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| nova PyPI | < 12.0.0a0all versions
| 12.0.0a0
|
| essex | = 2012.1
| No fix yet |
| folsom | = 2012.2
| No fix yet |
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.
NVD 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.
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