CVE-2012-5625

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom before 2012.2.2 and Grizzly, when using libvirt and LVM backed instances, does not properly clear physical volume (PV) content when reallocating for instances, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the memory of the previous logical volume (LV).

Affected products

OpenStack Folsom: 2012.2
OpenStack Grizzly: all versions

References

http://osvdb.org/88419
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/11/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56904
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1663-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1070539
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884293
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/9d2ea970422591f8cdc394001be9a2deca499a5f
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a99a802e008eed18e39fc1d98170edc495cbd354
https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.2
http://osvdb.org/88419
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html

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