CVE-2012-3360

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-3360
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-07-22 16:55:00 UTC
Updated2012-08-17 03:53:00 UTC
DescriptionDirectory 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Essex 2012.1 All All All
Application Openstack Essex 2012.1 All All All
Application Openstack Folsom 2012.2 All All All
Application Openstack Folsom 2012.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA49763 - OpenStack Compute (Nova) Host File Injection and File Corruption Vulnerabilities - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Prevent file injection writing to host filesystem. · b0feaff · openstack/nova · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Exploit, Patch
OpenStack Nova CVE-2012-3360 Remote Code Injection Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: openstack-nova-2012.1.1-3.fc17 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Prevent file injection writing to host filesystem. · 2427d4a · openstack/nova · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
USN-1497-1: Nova vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Bug #1015531 “Remote arbitrary file corruption / creation flaw v...” : Bugs : OpenStack Compute (nova) CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net
[OSSA 2012-008] Arbitrary file injection/corruption through directory traversal issues (CVE-2012-3360, CVE-2012-3361) : Mailing list archive : openstack team in Launchpad MLIST lists.launchpad.net
Security Advisory SA49802 - Ubuntu update for nova - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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