Directory traversal vulnerability in virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when used over libvirt-based hypervisors, allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary files to the disk image via a .. (dot dot) in the path attribute of a file element.
CVE-2012-3360
- No confirmed exploitation signals yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- —
- EG Score
- 0.0(none)
- EPSS
- 85.7%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 22, 2012
Last Modified
April 29, 2026
References (18)
- secalert@redhathttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/49763
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/49802
- secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277
- secalert@redhathttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1
- secalert@redhathttps://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/49763
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/49802
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
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| ubuntu | python-nova (2011.3-0ubuntu6.9) @ oneiric | 2026-05-29 | ubuntu |
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