CVE-2012-3361

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-07-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

OpenStack Diablo: 2011.3
OpenStack Essex: 2012.1
OpenStack Folsom: 2012.2

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/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083969.html

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