CVE-2012-3361

EPSS 1.4%

OpenStack Nova Arbitrary file injection/corruption through directory traversal issues

Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2), Essex (2012.1), and Diablo (2011.3) allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/novafrom 0, < 2012.1.1-2
PyPI/novafrom 0, < 12.0.0a0

References (10)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3361
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3361
PATCHhttps://github.com/openstack/nova
WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7
WEBhttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9
WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nova/PYSEC-2012-39.yaml
WEBhttps://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
WEBhttps://review.openstack.org/#/c/9268
WEBhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1