CVE-2012-3360
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5EPSS 3.1%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 3.1% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0021)
- Published
- July 22, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0021 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openstack / essex
- openstack / folsom
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49763(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49802(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9(Exploit, Patch)
- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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