FKIE_CVE-2012-3360

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-07-22 16:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:43
Severity
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/49763Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/49802Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9Exploit, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/49763Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/49802Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
openstack essex 2012.1
openstack folsom 2012.2
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