CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-3360

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2012-07-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-07-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• openstack essex 2012.1 • openstack folsom 2012.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References