CVE-2012-3361

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2), Essex (2012.1), and Diablo (2011.3) allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2012-07-22

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Diablo (Openstack)
• Essex (Openstack)
• Folsom (Openstack)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083969.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49763
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49802
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54278
• 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
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
• https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9268/