CVE-2012-3360 (GCVE-0-2012-3360)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-07-22 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/49763 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/49802 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a9… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffd… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2012-06-03 00:00
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