CVE-2012-4573

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The v1 API in OpenStack Glance Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary non-protected images via an image deletion request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5482.

Affected products

OpenStack Essex: 2012.1
OpenStack Folsom: 2012.2
OpenStack Image Registry And Delivery Service (Glance): all versions

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092192.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00002.html
http://osvdb.org/87248
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/118733/Red-Hat-Security-Advisory-2012-1558-01.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1558.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51174
http://secunia.com/advisories/51234
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56437
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1626-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1626-2

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