CVE-2012-5482

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% 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 v2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4573.

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://secunia.com/advisories/51174
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/08/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56437
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1076506
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80019
https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/b591304b8980d8aca8fa6cda9ea1621aca000c88

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