Published: 20/08/2012 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 6.8

VMScore: 436

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x prior to 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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #684256 CVE-2012-3447: file injection writing to host filesystem Package: nova; Maintainer for nova is Debian OpenStack <team+openstack@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debianorg> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 04:21:02 UTC Severity: critical Found in version 201211-5 Fixed ...

Nova could be made to overwrite or corrupt arbitrary files in the compute host file system ...

CWE-264 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ce4b2e27be45a85b310237615c47eb53f37bb5f3 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d9577ce9f266166a297488445b5b0c93c1ddb368 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54869 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/07/1 https://review.openstack.org/#/c/10953/https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845106 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1031311 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77539 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684256 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1545-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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