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CVE-2012-4501

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-10-26 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Citrix Cloud.com CloudStack, and Apache CloudStack pre-release, allows remote attackers to make arbitrary API calls by leveraging the system user account, as demonstrated by API calls to delete VMs.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache CloudStack: all versions
• Citrix Cloudstack: all versions

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0062.html
• http://cloudstack.org/blog/185-cloudstack-configuration-vulnerability-discovered.html
• http://markmail.org/thread/yfuxgymdqwg3kcg4
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0062.html
• http://cloudstack.org/blog/185-cloudstack-configuration-vulnerability-discovered.html
• http://markmail.org/thread/yfuxgymdqwg3kcg4

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