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CVE-2012-3360

Directory traversal vulnerability in virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), wh

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.01381
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  • Public exploit or PoC is available
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
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Affected Products & Versions

2
openstack essexall versions
openstack folsomall versions
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
PyPI nova MODERATE fixed in 12.0.0a0
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
pocgithub.com · b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9github.com
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Scoring & Timeline

5.5
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD22 Jul 2012 · 04:55 PM
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Vendor Advisories

1
usnUSN-1497-1
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References & Sources

8
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49763Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/49802Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
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