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.
Published: 2012-07-22
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-0021 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-m454-cm7h-rqhh OpenStack Nova Directory traversal vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1497-1 Nova vulnerabilities
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:05:12.510Z

Reserved: 2012-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-3360

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Status : Modified

Published: 2012-07-22T16:55:45.853

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-3360

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