5.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-3360

Published: 22/07/2012 Updated: 17/08/2012
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 8
VMScore: 490
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Vulnerability Trend

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openstack folsom 2012.2

openstack essex 2012.1

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #680110 nova: Arbitrary file injection/corruption through directory traversal Package: nova; Maintainer for nova is Debian OpenStack <team+openstack@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debianorg> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:51:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Fixe ...
Nova could be made to overwrite or corrupt arbitrary files in the compute host file system ...