CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-3447
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-3361.
Affected configurations
• openstack folsom
• openstack nova 2012.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/07/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54869 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1031311 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845106 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77539 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ce4b2e27be45a85b310237615c47eb53f37bb5f3 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d9577ce9f266166a297488445b5b0c93c1ddb368 Exploit, Patch
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/10953/ review.openstack.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/07/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54869 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1031311 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845106 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77539 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ce4b2e27be45a85b310237615c47eb53f37bb5f3 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d9577ce9f266166a297488445b5b0c93c1ddb368 Exploit, Patch
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/10953/ review.openstack.org